Target Holiday Hacking Fraud Expands
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NBC Nightly News
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Brian Williams/Katy Tur Copyright:
Event Date:
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01/10/2014
01/10/2014
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Video News Report
NBCUniversal Media,
LLC.
2014
00:02:50
Description
The security breach that affected Target customers who shopped between November 27 and December
15, 2013 was only the tip of the iceberg. Target has now announced that hackers tapped into its entire
customer database.
Keywords
Target, Cyber Crime, Data Breach, Consumer Data, Hackers, Hacking, Credit Card, Debit Card, Data,
Customers, Consumers, Malware, Stolen, Theft, Thieves, Personal Identification Numbers, PIN,
Passwords, Account Numbers, Aly White, Bob Sullivan, Credit.com, Identity Theft, Phishing, Gregg W.
Steinhafel, Apology, Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Credit, Credit Monitoring, Security, Crime
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MLA
"Target Holiday Hacking Fraud Expands." Katy Tur, correspondent. NBC Nightly News. NBCUniversal
Media. 10 Jan. 2014. NBC Learn. Web. 9 January 2016
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Tur, K. (Reporter), & Williams, B. (Anchor). 2014, January 10. Target Holiday Hacking Fraud Expands.
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Transcript
Target Holiday Hacking Fraud Expands
BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor:
Good evening. It was right around Christmas time when we learned about the massive data breach at
Target stores across this country and the theft of a lot of credit and dedit-- debit card data. It got worse
today with word that it’s potentially much larger, may not be limited to shoppers this year but may go
back several years. And it’s possible hackers have tapped into a data base that may include people who
don’t even shop at Target. We could be talking upwards of 110 million people. And this comes as so
many Americans have already been forced to change their cards and accounts. NBC’s Katy Tur has been
covering this for us and starts us off tonight.
KATY TUR, reporting:
If you thought the fraud at Target over the holidays did not affect you, think again. Last month it was
credit card numbers and 40 million people compromised. Today its names, phone numbers and e-mails
and home addresses for potentially 70 million more, making Target’s holiday hacking one of the largest
retail security breaches ever. Aly White, a loyal Target shopper found out she had a problem when she
started getting calls from her credit card company.
ALY WHITE: So I woke up to a phone call from my bank asking me if I had booked a flight to Qatar on
Qatar Airways. And I said Qatar, in the Middle East? And she said yes. I said no, absolutely not.
TUR: Since then, White’s had to change all of her credit cards.
WHITE: My life has been surprisingly miserable. I didn’t think it would be as hard as it was.
TUR: But with today’s news, stolen credit information isn’t all that’s worrying experts.
BOB SULLIVAN (Credit.com Fraud Expert): These are hackers, they’re after money.
TUR: If somebody has my phone, my e-mail address and much more information they can steal my
identity, which becomes a much bigger issue.
SULLIVAN: Yeah, yeah, what we call full-blown identity theft. And that’s the real concern now. Very
likely people are going to start getting e-mails--we call them phishing e-mails--that look like they’re from
Target or look like they’re from the FBI. It’s very real-sounding information because they know all this
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about you.
TUR: On its website, Target’s CEO issued an apology, writing- “I know that it is frustrating for our guests
to learn that this information was taken and we are truly sorry they are having to endure this.” Target says
it is offering free credit monitoring to all of its customers at U.S. stores. As for White, she says she still
needs to shop.
WHITE: It has changed my mind set. Every time I swipe my card, I think here we go again.
TUR: Target is still investigating the scope of the breach. And some experts have raised concerns that
Social Security numbers could also be at risk, though Target said at this point there is no indication that
that has happened. As for what you can do to protect yourself if Target offers you the free credit
monitoring, take them up on it and check as often as you can as identity theft can be a major problem that
can last for years. Brian.
WILLIAMS: Some chilling information in there. Katy Tur starting us off tonight. Katy, thanks.
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