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Target Data Breach Paper

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Starting the big 2013 holiday shopping season; Target shoppers got a huge surprise. Target was targeted by thieves that stole data and cause heartache to thousands upon thousands of innocent shoppers. Millions of credit cards were affected. The number was identified by target as at least 70 million customers had their private data stolen during November 27th and December 15th (Clark, 2014). In fact over 11 GB of data was shown stolen (Poulin, 2014). Target actually missed earlier internal warnings and only found out about the breach after they were contacted by the Department of Justice (Elgin, 2014). Target’s data breach is proof that these types of breaches are in fact becoming more and more sophisticated. The overall cost not only hurt the individuals that had their information …show more content…

Employees in higher positions lost their jobs including the CEO (Gonsalves, 2014). The customers were refunded millions upon millions of dollars that were stolen and re-issued credit cards. This major breach really hurt Target. Target’s breach shows how easily any business can be faced with this type of attack. This paper explores a holistic approach to the security of an organization’s data.
Red Flags
Due to Target’s choice to ignore many red flags; the data breach transpired. There were a series of steps that occurred prior to the actual data breach. There are a few sources that showed the steps involved. The thieves more than likely utilized a search engine such as Google that provided them with detailed information on how Target interacts with their vendors and possibly found out the types of software used and potentially the types of patching used. It is sad, but a proven fact that a lot of confidential information can find its way on the internet. From there, it appears that the thieves sent out emails containing malware that could attach itself to Target’s vendors

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