Report: Target Bosses Ignored IT Alert Of Impending Breach
Target IT staffers documented the intrusion and warned the lead security team in Target’s Minneapolis headquarters – and got no reaction.
Via slashdot:
A Target Corp. security team in Bangalore, India alerted company officials Nov. 30 of a possible infection and data breach… a warning to which Target management failed to respond, according to new reports.
Using a $1.6 million malware-detection system designed and installed by security firm FireEye, Inc. six months before, a Target security team set up in Bangalore to provide around-the-clock monitoring of Target’s digital security spotted signs of malware that had penetrated Target systems but was not yet active, according to a March 13 report from Bloomberg Businessweek that represents th...