Target Data Breach
During the 2013 holiday shopping season, Target Corporation, one of the largest retail department store chains in the United States, suffered one of the most consequential cyberattacks in retail history.
Exposed Data Types
7- Customer names
- Credit and debit card numbers
- Payment card security codes
- PIN codes
- Email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Mailing addresses
About This Breach
Threat actors gained access to Target's internal network using compromised credentials from a third-party HVAC vendor, installing custom RAM-scraping malware across retail point-of-sale (POS) systems. The incident compromised approximately 40 million credit and debit card records along with the personal contact information of 70 million individuals, totaling 110 million records exposed.
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