Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20131227 21:03

Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20131227 21:03:00

unemployment benefits as well. so certainly a disconnect between the rich and the less well off. joe? >> we also learned some information today about that target credit card hack. what are you hearing on that? >> reporter: right. so hearing from target today that they have confirmed that in that hack, pin data was actually stolen but target is also saying at the same time that that data was heavily encrypted and they don't believe that the hackers will actually be able to unscramble the pin numbers. so target at this point really just sort of desperate to salvage any piece of trust they have left with consumers so they did get pin data, but the data was heavily scrambled. that's what they're saying. what's interesting is what target told us yesterday. they told us something very different yesterday. they told us yesterday that to date, there is actually no evidence that unencrypted pin data was compromised. now today they are actually coming out and saying that pin data was compromised but they don't believe the hackers would be sophisticated enough to actually unscramble those pins and actually steal people's

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