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Why Using Bitcoin Could Make a Target-Style Data Breach Obsolete – Money Morning

The recent data breach at Target is one of the worst breaches of credit card information ever. But if those millions of Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) customers had been using Bitcoin instead of credit cards, the thieves could not have stolen any of their personal data.

The thieves who stole the credit card data from Target customers took the information from Target’s own computer systems. They got credit card numbers, names, and home addresses. In short order, the Target thieves were selling this data to other criminals over the Internet.

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