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Some of them get five weeks of vacation asix months off. now let's take a look at some of the other stories coming into the situation room. more trouble for target this holiday season. some customers are having trouble using their target gift cards in stores. target says the cards will be honored. this comes avatar get revealed its what the victim of a massive credit card hack affecting 40 million customers and their pin numbers. warring sides in south sudan say they've agreed to peace talks. the south sudanese government has been fighting with rebels loyal to the former vice president who...

Were compromised. alexandra field is live with the hatest from target and the customers. >> reporter: they're admitting this is a bigger breach than initially reported initially we knew card numbers and names had been taken now we know p.i.n. numbers had been taken. target has said the data was scrambled and it will be difficult to decipher. they're reassuring customers that that information is protected. it reads, the p.i.n. information was fully encrypted at the keypad, remained encrypted within our system and remained encrypted when it was removed from our system. target says there's no rea...

Fully incrypted at the key pad. the company insists it would be unlikely that hackers would be able to unscramble data but some experts remain concerned. >> the inkrims itself is great standard. data inscription standard. which definitely allows it to be protected. but unfortunately the problem with pin numbers is there are four characters. only about 10,000 different combinations can you do in order to get it. all together, it is not going to hold up because hackers can do what is called brute forcing it to grab pin numbers itself. >> security breech affecting 40 million customers who shopped...

Destruction. every time government gets involved in manipulating prices, whether it's in ethanol, in housing, whether it's in student loans, wealth destruction always follows. we've seen that with interest rates in the tune of trillions over the last five, six years. what the net result will be hard to predict. >> is there a lesson to be learned at the end of the year when we see that, for example, 40 million customers who are holiday shopping at target have their credit information taken, their pin numbers possibly for debit or credit cardser, for an example like that, there could be a little...

They are heavily encrypted and impossible to decode. alexander field is live for us now in new york. so, is that the case, very difficult to, i guess, decode? >> reporter: well, fred, target is telling shoppers they believe that the information is safe, secure and protected, but some security experts are saying it's possible that that information might not be. there are sophisticated hackers out there right now trying access those p.i.n. numbers, so really no reason for shoppers to wait and find out. just a day after saying there was no evidence that personal identification numbers, or p.i.n.s...