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Data has been compromised. in addition, based on our communications with financial institutions, they have also seen no indications that any pin data was compromised. so they didn't really say anything that wasn't true. why did that statement change today? is it possible they didn't know? or was it an attempt to hide the extent of the damage? >> what happens in these situations is you learn as you go. when they find out their point of sale systems had been compromised, they assumed it was what we call track data or track two data which come off the back of the magnetic strip. what we learned i...

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 ...

Hi there, i'm brianna keilar in washington. wolf blitzer is off today. we'll be starting with more fall out from the target hacking scandal and an admission from the retailer. target now says debit card pin numbers were stolen during that data breach. our zain asher joining me now from the new york stock exchange. she has been following the story for days now. this is a bit of an about face. >> hi, it does look like it. target now coming out saying that pin data was stolen but they are emphasizing the pin dat data was encrypted and don't believe they can unscramble the pin data. target told us...

>> well, there is a lot of blame going around. there's a lot of finger pointing which is somewhat interesting. some of the retailers are blaming the shippers like ups and fed ex. ups in some cases sent customers e-mails saying look, we didn't receive the package in time, it's not our fault. so there does seem to be plenty of blame going around but at the end of the day, i think the customer's really going to hold the retailer who they ordered from responsible. >> and target, they say there's no evidence of unencrypted pin data being compromised when 40 million credit and debit cards were stole...

Data was compromised. our goal is to address this issue, now several banks have limited how much money we can take out of our own accounts. and because of this mess, right? so can you get us up to speed on where that stands? >> right, so j.p. morgan chase specifically, initially reduced spending limits on potentially affected customers. so what that meant was they said initially they were going the reduce the limits and raise the limit. they raised it to $250 for withdrawals, specifically, the banks have to protect themselves, as well. typically if somebody hacked into your account, you will n...