Target's data breach: Yes, it gets worse
Found on CNet News on Saturday, 18 January 2014
There appears to be no end in sight for just how bad the unprecedented hack attack at Target was last holiday season.
Now Reuters is reporting that cyberintelligence firm IntelCrawler has unearthed evidence pointing toward at least six ongoing schemes at U.S. merchants with credit card processing systems plagued by the same type of malicious software.
According to IntelCrawler's sources, the malware has been tested out and infected point-of-sale hardware across Australia and Canada as well as the United States.
It's a global economy. Identical payment terminals are in use in many different places around the world, so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that they can get infected everywhere.