The hackers who managed to steal data for up to 40 million credit cards used in Target stores on Black Friday and in following weeks have reportedly accessed the associated encrypted personal identification numbers (PINs) as well, which could be cracked and used to make fraudulent withdrawals. Reuters revealed the news in a recent report, which cited “a senior payments executive familiar with the situation.” However, Target says that unencrypted PINs were not accessed during the “sophisticated” digital heist and that there was no evidence that PINs were compromised, even if encrypted data that may have or may have not contained encrypted PINs was stolen. “We continue to have no reason to believe that PIN data, whether encrypted or unencrypted, was compromised.
Reuters: Target hackers got encrypted bank PINs as well
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