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target hack attack. the retailer now saying hackers were able to get into the system by using stolen credentials from a different company the store works with. alison is in new york with more. >> this winds up being the ah-ha moment for investigators. this gives new clues on how the attack was carried out. basically, hackers got to target through one of its vendors. so what does that mean? target is a really big company. it works with a lot of supplier and other companies as well. those companies have access to some of target's data bases and systems. so hackers got to those internal systems by stealing credentials from one of target's partner companies. now, no word yet on which partner was breached. but, target has clamped down on access to some of its systems while it tries to figure all this out, especially for these big companies. you have to remember, it really isn't possible to act in a vacuum, because it shows that when these companies work with