Security Week – According to Target Chairman and CEO Gregg Steinhafel, point-of-sale (POS) malware was used in the recent attack that compromised millions of credit and debit card account numbers of customers across the country.
Steinfhafel told CNBC’s Becky Quick in an interview that malware was used in attacks that compromised the company’s point of sale registers.
“While Steinfhafel said the full extent of what transpired is not yet known, what Target does know is that malware was installed on the company’ point of sale registers,” Quick wroteSunday evening.
