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Target to Pay MasterCard Banks $19M to Settle Data Breach Claim

Target Corp. said it had agreed to reimburse about $19 million to financial institutions that had issued MasterCard-branded cards that were a part of the massive data breach at the retailer in 2013. The amount under the settlement with MasterCard …

Target Agrees to Pay $10 Million to Settle Consumers’ Data Breach Claims

Target Corp has agreed to pay $10 million in a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit related to a huge 2013 data breach that consumers say compromised their personal financial information, court documents show. Under the proposal, which requires federal …

Staples Still Tallying Costs of Data Breach

Staples Inc., the world’s largest office-supply chain, said it can’t yet “reasonably” estimate the potential losses and expenses it will incur in connection with the possible credit-card data breach disclosed last month. While the company said it believes the malware …

Data Breach Impacts Pennsylvania College Students

Students at a northwestern Pennsylvania medical school are being urged to monitor their credit after their names and Social Security numbers were inadvertently posted online. The Erie Times-News says the data breach impacted students at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic …