The cybercriminals that stole the details of 40 million payment cards and the contact information of 70 million Target customers are said to have breached the retailers systems after stealing credentials from a vendor.
What we have known so far is that the attackers gained access to information on point-of-sale registers by planting a piece of malware. However, it hasnt been known how the malware got there in the first place.
Target representatives have …