News that Target’s CEO Gregg Steinhafle is stepping down has prompted a flurry of reports from media outlets trying to recap events since the company announced a data breach on Dec. 19, 2013. Sprinkled throughout those reports were lots of numbers, which got me to thinking about synthesizing them with some of the less-reported numbers associated with this epic breach.
40 million –The number of credit and debit cards thieves stole from Target between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, 2013.
70 million – The number of records stolen that included the name, address, email address and phone number of Target shoppers.
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The figures are huge, I hope it acts as a lesson to companies and if not a lesson then a benchmark.
The Target Breach, By the Numbers
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Those are some mind-boggling stats. No wonder the CEO "stepped down" aka was fired.
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I guess this means a lot of CEO's are in trouble and Target isn't alone! Certainly they will now need an appreciation for the computer security side of their business whatever industry!
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