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April 21, 2014

Target hackers could take years to track down

  • The total cost of the credit card breach — including losses by banks, consumers and others— could easily reach into the billions of dollars.
    • By BREE FOWLER
    AP Technology Writer

    WASHINGTON — Secret Service investigators say they are close to gaining a full understanding of the methods hackers used to breach Target's computer systems last December.

    But the agency says it could take years to identify the criminals who stole some 40,000 debit and credit card numbers of Target shoppers and other personal information from as many as 70 million people in the pre-Christmas breach.


     
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