The Target data breach exposed more than 100 million customers, riled up U.S. intelligence agencies, sparked a Justice Department investigation, involved the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, triggered congressional hearings, and led several banks to re-issue their credit cards. The hacker has variously been identified as a 17-year-old Russian or one or more other cybercriminals. The hack apparently consisted of a drive-by SQL injection that took advantage of a default password in a third party’s IT management software.
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IT Weaknesses Paved the Way for Target Hackers
Posted by: Richard Adhikari January 30, 2014 02:29 PMThe Target data breach exposed more than 100 million customers, riled up U.S. intelligence agencies, sparked a Justice Department investigation, involved the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI, triggered congressional hearings, and led several banks to re-issue their credit cards. The hacker has variously been identified as a 17-year-old Russian or one or more other cybercriminals. The hack apparently consisted of a drive-by SQL injection that took advantage of a default password in a third party’s IT management software.