2008 — Target: Three employees were discovered to have used…
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Three employees were discovered to have used customer account information to place fraudulent charges on Target Visa accounts. The account information included names, Social Security numbers, addresses, account numbers and telephone numbers. The total number of affected individuals was not reported. It appears that at least 40 people in four states had their accounts accessed; some of them became victims of fraud.
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