Target corporation is the victim of the biggest credit card security breach to date, affecting up to 110M cards. That’s an amazing statistic by itself, but the problem is even worse – it remains unclear exactly what happened or if other companies are themselves targets of the same thieves.
But that is only to be expected in a system that is only as secure as the weakest link – and the potential gain by hacking it is nearly unlimited money. There is little doubt that even before we learn exactly what happened at Target it will happen again, on scales both large and small.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 