The hackers who hacked millions of credit card numbers and information from customers of Target also hacked personal PIN numbers. Hackers who obtained these PIN numbers may be able to make fraudulent withdrawls with those PIN numbers and credit card details. Target was required by federal law to notify customers of this security breach. Healthcare.gov or the other various state ObamaCARE website have no such requirements. Any ObamaCARE sire could be hacked, and they wouldn’t have to notify anyone, because of the way the wrote the regulations.
Daily Caller/Reuters:
The hackers who attacked Target Corp and compromised up to 40 million credit cards and debit cards also managed to steal encrypted personal identification numbers (PINs), according to a senior payments executive familiar with the situation.
One major U.S. bank fears that the thieves would be able to crack the encryption code and make fraudulent withdrawals from consumer bank accounts, said the executive, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the data breach is still under investigation.
Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder said “no unencrypted PIN data was accessed” and there was no evidence that PIN data has been “compromised.” She confirmed that some “encrypted data” was stolen, but declined to say if that included encrypted PINs.
“We continue to have no reason to believe that PIN data, whether encrypted or unencrypted, was compromised. And we have not been made aware of any such issue in communications with financial institutions to date,” Snyder said by email. “We are very early in an ongoing forensic and criminal investigation.”