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CNN CNN Newsroom December 27, 2013 20:01:00

we reached out to them yesterday and asked what the deal was with pins. here's what they told us. they said to us yesterday, to date, there's no evidence that unencrypted pin data was compromised. no evidence is what they told us yesterday. they also added, based on our communications with financial institutions, they have not seen any indication that any pin data was compromised. you can see how cleverly worded that was. i was talking to a hacker, and i said, should people be worried royalty now? he said there's two things you should understand. first, target doesn't store the encryption key in their system, so that's good news, and they have one of the more robust type of systems so it looks good for target right now. it is possible these hackers could eventually get the numbers, but they would have to be very sophisticated to do that. >> for full disclosure, i

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