Krebs on Security has the news on this one:
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/target-hackers-broke-in-via-hvac-company
A third party service company responsible for helping Target maintain its heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, etc. had access to Target's systems. Those access keys were stolen and used to ultimately get to 100 million or more customer accounts during the holiday season of 2013.
Wow.
If that article is too dense read this ComputerWorld article instead:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246074/Target_breach_happened_because_of_a_basic_network_segmentation_error
Retail Information Systems has a small piece about the money criminals are making through retail POS systems.
http://risnews.edgl.com/retail-news/Huge-Criminal-Profits-Are-Being-Made-from-Retail-POS-Says-FBI90986
This story is a good one, and you just knew it would be. Cloak & dagger through and through.
Happy reading,
J.W. Gant
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