Target Data Breach: Threats, Protections, and Legal/Ethical Issues

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Table of Contents
Introduction....................................................................................................................2
Threat faced by Target...................................................................................................2
CIA triad related to Security breach...............................................................................3
Protections present to prevent breach............................................................................5
Legal and Ethical issues related to the breach...............................................................6
References......................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
A network of Target Corporation was breached during 27th November and 18th
December, 2013. This was the second largest breach of debit and credit cards. In this target
breach, 70 million confidential information were stolen along with 40 million numbers of
debit and credit card were stolen. In 2014, several other target breaches were reported around
568 data were stolen (In, 2015). The division of Target Security protects the network and
system again all the threats of cyber like exfiltration and malware. A popular service of
malware detection was intruded which was named as FireEye. This service was cooperated
by CIA at the time of its development.
Threat faced by Target
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