The annual holiday shopping season may have seen the theft of around 40 million credit and debit card accounts belonging to Target consumers in the United States.
The firm has sent a statement informing all customers who made purchases at Target shops over the Black Friday weekend of the news.
All Target customers who made transactions by swiping their cards at terminals during the aforementioned time frame are in danger.
Although Target has not revealed any additional details regarding the incident, it has comforted its customers by saying that the issue that caused the issue has been resolved and cardholders can resume using their credit cards to make purchases.
Source: https://securityaffairs.com/20605/cyber-crime/target-data-breach-40m-accounts.html
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/target
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