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  1. Cyber Case Study: Target Data Breach

    The Details of the Target Data Breach. In September 2013, cybercriminals utilized an email-based phishing scam to trick an employee from Fazio Mechanical—an HVAC contractor and one of Target's third-party vendors—into providing their credentials. From there, the cybercriminals used these stolen credentials to infiltrate Target's network ...

  2. PDF Target Cyber Attack: A Columbia University Case Study

    Executive Summary. In this case study, we examine the 2013 breach of American retailer Target, which led to the theft of personally identifiable information (PII) and credit card information belonging to over 70 million customers from Target's databases. This case study will first consider Target's vulnerabilities to an external attack in ...

  3. Cyber Breach at Target

    Cyber Breach at Target - Case Solution. The "Cyber Breach at Target" case study discusses the password creation policies and practices of various e-commerce websites. It presents steps on how to address the cyber breach and looks into more ways to secure a company's network from threats of the breach and to keep it safe from potential cyber ...

  4. Breaking the Target: An Analysis of Target Data Breach and Lessons Learned

    Fig. 1. Timeline of the Target data breach (2013). leak. The contributions of our work are summarized as follows. We gather and verify information from multiple sources and describe the process of the Target data breach in details (Section 2). We provide an in-depth analysis of the major mal-ware used in the Target breach, including its design

  5. Targeting Target with a 100 million dollar data breach

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  6. Anatomy of the Target data breach: Missed opportunities and ...

    Target personnel discovered the breach and notified the U.S. Justice Department by December 13th. As of December 15th, Target had a third-party forensic team in place and the attack mitigated. On ...

  7. Case Study: Cyber Breach at Target

    The breach that occurred during the busy holiday shopping season resulted in personal and credit card information of approximately 110 million Target customers being compromised. The case describes the details of the breach, circumstances that lead to it, consequences for customers and for Target, and the company's response.

  8. Autopsy of a Data Breach: The Target Case

    Unlock Case Solution Now! Get instant access to this case solution with a simple, one-time payment ($24.90). You'll be redirected to the full case solution. You will receive an access link to the solution via email. This case study looks into the events at Target that led to the largest breach of confidential data. Read our case solution now!

  9. PDF Teaching Case Security Breach at Target

    This case study follows the security breach that affected Target at the end of 2013 and resulted in the loss of financial data for over 70 million customers. The case provides an overview of the company and describes the reasons that led to one of the biggest security breaches in history.

  10. Cyber Breach at Target

    In November and December of 2013, Target Corporation suffered one of the largest cyber breaches to date. The breach that occurred during the busy holiday shopping season resulted in personal and credit card information of approximately 110 million Target customers being compromised. The case describes the details of the breach, circumstances ...

  11. Complete Case Study

    7 min read. ·. Dec 4, 2022. 1. The Target data breach of 2013 is considered to be one of the largest data breaches in the history of the United States. In December of 2013, credit card numbers of ...

  12. Hausfeld

    In 2013, Target experienced the then-largest data breach in history, exposing tens of millions of its customers' sensitive payment card and personal information to third parties. Hausfeld was one of the first law firms to file a case on behalf of banks and credit unions who suffered financial losses resulting from the data breach.

  13. Case Study

    Target's data breach directly costed it $252 million. $90 million of that cost was covered by insurance. It also had to spend $4 million in net breach-related expenses for the fourth quarter of ...

  14. Autopsy of a Data Breach: The Target Case

    This case revisits the events in late 2013 that gave rise to what was at the time the largest breach of confidential data in history. Indeed, on December 19, 2013, Target announced that its computer network had been infiltrated by cybercriminals who stole 40 million debit and credit card numbers as well as the personal information of some 70 million additional customers. The case presents the ...

  15. What We Learned from Target's Data Breach 2013

    In 2013, the infamous Target data breach swept through America, compromising a devastating number of point-of-sale systems and along with it, over 40 million credit and debit card numbers. Four years later in 2017, Target reached an 18.5-million dollar multistate settlement, requiring they employ an executive to oversee a comprehensive data ...

  16. Breaking the Target: An Analysis of Target Data Breach and Lessons

    Breaking the Target: An Analysis of Target Data Breach and Lessons Learned. by Xiaokui Shu, Ke Tian*, Andrew Ciambrone* and Danfeng (Daphne) Yao, Member, IEEE. ... the malware used in the attack. In addition to a case analysis, this paper discusses the lack of consideration placed on safeguarding credit card information, and the need for ...

  17. Cyber Security Case Study: Target Data Breach

    Cyber Security: Target's 2013 Data Breach. Monday, September 21st, 2015. Overview. This is the first in a series of case studies/blogs that will evaluate cyber security threats and failure, from the perspective of those in the electrical industry with an eye toward the future electrical power grid that will utilize advanced communications ...

  18. Autopsy of a Data Breach: The Target Case Change Management Analysis

    Step 1 - Establish a sense of urgency. What are areas that require urgent change management efforts in the " Autopsy of a Data Breach: The Target Case " case study. Some of the areas that require urgent changes are - organizing sales force to meet competitive realities, building new organizational structure to enter new markets or explore ...

  19. Surviving Data Breaches: A Multiple Case Study Analysis

    our study uses a multiple case study appro ach based on three recent data breaches - Target, Anthem, and. Yahoo. We adopt the approach of Breznik et al. (2019) in focusing on how six key firm ...

  20. Case Study: Critical Controls that Could Have Prevented Target Breach

    Case Study: Critical Controls that Could Have Prevented Target Breach. A review of Oracle Advanced Security for Oracle Database 12c by SANS Analyst and Senior Instructor Dave Shackleford. It explores a number of the product's capabilities, including transparent data encryption (TDE) and effortless redaction of sensitive data, that seamlessly ...

  21. PDF Surviving Data Breaches: A Multiple Case Study Analysis

    a data breach, and (2) What strategies do they undertake to achieve a competitive advantage? In order to identify what potential practices could help organizations recover from data breaches, our study uses a multiple case study approach based on three recent data breaches Target, Anthem, and - Yahoo.

  22. (PDF) Teaching Case Security Breach at Target

    Abstract and Figures. This case study follows the security breach that affected Target at the end of 2013 and resulted in the loss of financial data for over 70 million customers. The case ...

  23. PDF A Case Study of the Capital One Data Breach

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