Target is no longer pseudo-denying that encrypted PINs were stolen in the holiday shopping security breach that resulted in 40 million compromised payment cards. In a statement, Target has confirmed a ...

ATLANTA — Target said Friday that debit-card PIN numbers were among the financial information stolen from millions of customers who shopped at the retailer earlier this month. The company said the ...

After hackers made off with the credit and debit card data of 40 million Target customers, the retailer said the personal identification numbers, or PINs, of those customers had been spared. Not so.

Target Corp. on Friday confirmed that data thieves obtained customers’ encrypted debit card PINs, but said the sensitive numbers remain useless to the criminals because of the technology masking them.

After confirming that hackers made off with sensitive data belonging to some 40 million customers, Target has revealed that encrypted PIN details were swiped in the attack too. Some of the details, ...

Target on Friday confirmed that hackers managed to steal encrypted data including encrypted PINs, as reported by Reuters earlier this week, but added that the PIN numbers are still safe and hackers ...

The PIN data that was removed can only be decrypted when it is received by Target's external, independent payment processor, Molly Snyder, a spokeswoman for the Minneapolis-based retailer, said in an ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- Target says customers' encrypted PIN data was removed during the massive data breach that occurred earlier this month, but it's 'confident that PIN numbers are safe and secure' despite ...

Hackers have crossed a new frontier by devising sophisticated ways to steal large quantities of personal identification numbers, or PINs, protecting credit and debit cards. The attacks involve ...

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Target said Friday that debit-card PINs were among the financial information stolen from millions of customers who shopped at the retailer earlier this month. The company said the stolen personal ...