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Target has confirmed that its customers' pin data was also stolen. that's a turn-around from what the company said yesterday that there were no indications that pin data had been stolen. in a statement today, target said the data was strongly encrypted and, quote, the most important thing for our guests to know is that their debit card accounts have not been compromised. the ceo of trusted sec and a white hat hacker. how secure are those encryption numbers? >> well, the encryption itself is actually an industry grade standard. they use something called triple, which allows it to be protected. ...

It. >> all right. target says that a encryption key is needed for those encryption numbers. the card wasn't stolen because it's held bien independent processor. >> you know, it's so interesting, alexandra, it really seems that target was also a victim, let's be clear about this. they were hacked into, they've had their information stolen as well. they've got security measures in place. i'm sure they're re-evaluating their security measures. it's interesting that they can say the numbers were stolen but they're encrypted. then you hear the expert saying, yeah, but there's only 10,000 combinatio...