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Account hacked. the retail giant has confirmed that a security breach left 40 million customers exposed to potential credit and debit card fraud. the secret service is all up in the investigation. for more on this story, we bring in cnbcs mary thompson. >> good morning. or good afternoon, i should say. a busy day for target. customers have flooded the companys credit card website. the website has crashed. the phone line usually used to answer questions about its credit card, that isnt picking up...

Shopping. bill: the thieves storing that personal information stored on that black strip. what do it all mean and how did this happen? >> reporter: nearly 40 million customers could be affected. its not just credit card, its debit card. target set in a statement that information can include the customers name, their debit or credit card number, the ex perration date as well as the 3-digit security code on the back of that card. this would allow thieves to possibly create counterfeit credit card....

Millions are americans are concerned about what is going to happen onto target and their debit and credit cards because of what happened in the past few weeks putting their personal information in jeopardy. joining me assistant editor of financial times and cnbcs marry thompson who has been all over this story and our networks. thank you for being with us. mary, first to you. how does this happen and what is the implication for target and all the people whose personal data has been compromised? ...

It includes the customers name, credit or debit card number, ex-perper race date and three-digit security code. with that kind of date that would allow thieves to create counterfeit credit cards. if pin numbers were intercepted they could withdraw money from atms as well. authorities including the secret service are investigating whether or not the pin numbers were stolen and trying to find out who is responsible for this. they dont have any information at this time. we spoke to the secret servi...

Wow! huge, huge problem. what can you tell us? >> its not the kind of news you want to hear, chris, and good morning. between november betweenth and december 15th, if you shopped at target using a debit or credit card, go back and check those accounts for any unauthorized usage. thats what target is saying. theyre not giving a lot of details and know exactly who might have done this, some kind of a breach, basically not only just your number which is bad enough and also things like the security ...

Immediately dealing with the security code questions which required you to select dates. one of them was type a significant date in your life. today is my birthday. so i put that in. i tried three different ways of entering that date and got a message each time important, this is not a valid answer. same thing for the third date entry. and a lot of times when youre registering online for anything and you have to put a date in, there will be a little prompt there that tells you what the format is...

Encountered problems immediately dealing with the security code questions which required you to select dates. one of them was type a significant date in your life. today is my birthday so i put that in. i tried three different ways of entering that date and got a message each time, important, this is not a valid answer. same thing for the third date entry. and a lot of times when youre registering online for anything and you have to put a date in, there will be a little prompt that tells you wha...

Security code questions which required you to select dates. one of them was type a significant date in your life. today is my birthday. so i put that in. i tried three different ways of entering that date and got a message each time, important, this is not a valid answer. same thing for the third date entry. and a lot of times when youre registering online for anything and you have to put a date in, there will be a little prompt there that tells you what the format is youre required to enter. do...

Enough to figure it out. from coach les miles. >> just ahead, apples new iphone lets you use your fingerprint as a security code. its supposed to make the phone more secure. so what could possibly go wrong? the privacy concerns. thats next. just by talking to a helmet. it grabbed the patients record before we even picked him up. it found out the doctor we needed was at st. annes. wiggle your toes. [ driver ] and it got his okay on treatment from miles away.

Inches or even lighter amounts. coastal areas should be seeing rain mixing in with that. otherwise a quick shot of your temperatures. warm, san antonio. 84 degrees. yesterday you actually made it into the 90s out there. parts of the midwest, very cold today. 24 degrees for your high temperature in minneapolis. you factor in the wind and it feels colder than that. >> thank you very much. >> anna: so were continuing our honesty in america. we went to five cities in five days and were gauging hones...