Last December Target Corp. announced that the credit and debit card numbers of 40 million customers had been stolen. But as Teresa Dixon Murray explained on cleveland.com, the real impact of the breach was realized in January with the revelation that the personal contact information for as many as 70 million more people had also been compromised.
As Shipman & Goodwin partner Daniel Schwartz discussed in “Personal Data on Your Workers Next Target for Hackers?” on the Connecticut Employment Law Blog, reports have surfaced that in March, Chinese hackers broke into computer networks at the U.S. government agency that houses information on all federal employees.
