Hopefully you haven't been affected by the Target data breach.  And if you weren't, that's great to hear. But you may not be totally safe just yet.

There's word filtering through via a company called Intelcrawler that it's likely several more retailers were hit with the malware; they either don't know it yet or they do know but haven't released the information about it.

Best advice is to keep a very close eye on your accounts and report anything suspicious to your bank.

Where did this come from?  The program and code has been traced back to a 17 year old kid in Russia, but he's not the one who stole the data.  He wrote the code and then sold it to several cyber criminals.

Read more from the Washington Post.  And there's a fair amount of techy stuff on the Intelcrawler wesbite.

 

 

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