article_snippet.sent: For example, during the conference This type of attack was revealed that two individuals reportedly entered a major American retail store, unscrewed a server rack and walked out with the server leaving a major American retail store unable to process credit card payments, according to RT.
article_snippet.sent: As retailers have increasingly battled security breaches in recent years, Target was at the center of the second-largest card breach at a U.S. retailer two years ago.
article_snippet.sent: An investigation found that hackers stole the personal information of at least 70million of Target's customers, including names, mailing addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses.
article_snippet.sent: Hackers are thought to have stolen the credit card details by breaking into Target's computer systems and installing data mining software on credit card machines.
article_snippet.sent: breaking into Target's computer systems and installing data mining software on credit card machines installed on 40,000 machines across Target's 1,797 stores read the information on a card's magnetic strip - including account number, sort code and CCV code - when breaking into Target's computer systems and installing data mining software on credit card machines was swiped through the machine.
article_snippet.sent: All of the card details were then sent back to the hackers through the internet, before the theft was discovered after nearly three weeks.
article_snippet.sent: In another case of a security breach, in 2014, 56million debit and credit cards are estimated to have been breached in a data theft between April and September at Home Depot stores in the U.S. and Canada.