CIO not the only one to blame for Target breach

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9246786/CIO_not_the_only_one_to_blame_for_Target_breach

By Jaikumar Vijayan
Computerworld
March 5, 2014

That someone had to take the fall for the massive breach at Target is 
neither surprising nor unexpected. The only question is whether more heads 
will roll in the aftermath of one the biggest data compromises in retail 
history.

Target on Wednesday announced that Beth Jacob, its CIO of more than five 
years, had resigned. The move comes less than two months after the retail 
giant disclosed it had suffered a data breach that exposed sensitive data 
on more than 40 million credit and debit cards.

Later, the company announced that emails, addresses and other information 
on another 70 million people might also have been exposed as the result of 
the intrusion, which occurred over the 2013 Thanksgiving weekend.

In a statement to the Associated Press, Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel said 
the company is searching for an interim CIO to help it through an 
information security overhaul that began after the breach.

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