Target data breach News

Target to Pay $18.5 Million to Settle States’ Claims from 2013 Data Breach

Target Corp. on Tuesday agreed to pay $18.5 million to settle claims by 47 states and the District of Columbia and resolve a multi-state investigation into the retailer’s massive data breach in late 2013. The investigation — led by the …

Corporations Have ‘Alarmingly High’ Failure Rate with Their Cyber Defenses: Accenture

About one-third of targeted attempts to breach corporations’ cyber defenses succeed but three-quarters of executives remain unaccountably confident in their security strategies, Accenture Plc. reported Wednesday in a survey of 2,000 security officers representing large enterprises worldwide. The “alarmingly high” …

Data Theft by Employees Affects 69% of Businesses: Accenture Survey

As businesses spend billions of dollars a year trying to protect their data from hacking that’s costing trillions, they face another threat closer to home: data theft by their own employees. That’s one of the findings in a survey to …

Israeli Cyber Security Business Foundry, Team8, on Track to Build 5 Firms by 2020

Team8, a cyber security business foundry created by veterans of the Israeli army’s technology and intelligence unit 8200, said it closed a $23 million round of financing. Team8 plans to use the money to develop five companies over the next …

Judge Allows Class Action by Banks Against Target Over Data Breach

Hundreds of banks and credit unions can band together to pursue damages from Target Corp. over a 2013 hacking attack that compromised as many as 40 million payment cards. The ruling Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Paul Magnuson in St. …

Target Avoids SEC Penalties Over 2013 Breach

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission won’t pursue an enforcement action against Target Corp. after hackers stole data on 40 million credit and debit cards during the 2013 holiday shopping season, according to a regulatory filing. The agency finished its …

Target Agrees to Settle Data Breach Claims with Visa

Target Corp. said it has reached an agreement with Visa Inc. card issuers to reimburse up to $67 million in costs related to a data breach at the retailer in 2013, according to a source familiar with the matter. The …

Banks Scuttle MasterCard Settlement with Target Over Data Breach

A proposed $19 million settlement between MasterCard Inc. and Target Corp. over the retailer’s 2013 data breach fell through after not enough banks accepted the deal, the credit card company said on Thursday. The agreement, announced in April, would have …

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 …