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Perspective

Feb. 13, 2014

Cool air, hot data: breaches affect us all

It was recently revealed that the massive Target data breach involved credentials stolen from a third-party contractor. So what's the law have to say about that? By Tanya L. Forsheit


By Tanya L. Forsheit


Google "HVAC" and you will find, on the first page of results, a list of local heating, ventilation and air conditioning vendors, Yelp ratings for such vendors, and as of February 2014, an unlikely addition: a high-profile story about the massive Target data breach involving payment card data. Why this anomaly?


As reported by Brian Krebs on his blog Krebs on Security, in the aftermath of the massive Target data sec...

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