by Privacy & Data Security Members Karin McGinnis & Robert Sumner
Cyber-Monday sales weren’t the only good thing that happened for consumers this week. Later in the week a federal judge in Minnesota thwarted Target’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit brought by banks and credit unions arising out of the massive data breach last year. Although the breach and access to the credit card information of some 40 million consumers resulted from hackers obtaining the password of a Target vendor who was accessing an unrelated subsystem, the banks and credit unions claimed that Target was liable ...
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