Target Data Breach Leads to Record Settlement With 47 States, Including Texas
Style Magazine Newswire | 5/26/2017, 1:45 p.m.
Source: Houston Business Journal
The Houston Business Journal reports Target Corp. has reached an $18.5 million settlement with 47 states, including Texas, and the District of Columbia related to its massive customer data breach in 2013. The data breach affected more than 41 million customer payment card accounts, along with contact information for more than 60 million customers. Texas will receive about $1.1 million of that total settlement figure, the Houston Chronicle reports. About 5 million of the total 41 million affected accounts were in Texas, per the Chronicle. The agreement with Minnesota-based Target represents the largest multistate data breach settlement achieved to date, according to a news release from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
