Posted on 12/26/2013 2:22:07 PM PST by gooblah
A U.S. senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Target's security practices after the large retailer reported a data breach affecting 40 million customer credit and debit cards.
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I gotta ask this — Do you really think Target wanted this to happen or that they didn’t apply due diligence to their security efforts?
Remember, this happening is negatively affecting a Target.
Exactly.
As someone said; we should turn the NSA loose for a day or to catch the people behind this!
People don’t think about the effects on all involved. Probably many people working part time at Target will now lose income as their sales slow for example.
The Federal Trade Commission?
Is that the agency for this?
Not the FBI or something?
Just lining up some gravy for the class action tort lawyers. They’re the only ones who will make any real money on this.
I heard a suggestion that it was sabotage staged by one of Target’s competitors. If that’s the case, I think the FTC might well be the agency.
The hackers who did this are most likely overseas in some Islamic or Commie country where our laws can not reach. So the government and lawyers are going to victimize Target too for the easy money. Target may want to rethink their name.
Another greedy, wealth redistribution democrat sniffing around for a way to use the misfortune and hardship of others to extort some money from an innocent corporation.
Good move!
Maybe they could contract with CGI (the Mooch connection)
for some first class computer analysis for a coup’la hundred million quid!
Just one more political hack out for no one but himself.
so who vetts the techs who service point of sale machines
or servers? is the exe running on those things provisioned in any kind of accountable way? the lawmakers may need to pay attention here..
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