Target staff had urged the company to review the security of its payment system months prior to the breach, American Banker and The Wall Street Journal report. The company was updating its payment terminals at the time and allegedly postponed the review, the report states, and Courthouse News Service reports on a list of plaintiffs suing for the breach. In a separate incident, Kickstarter.com has notified users its systems were compromised. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports on how quickly businesses should send breach notifications and on proposed breach response legislation. For the healthcare sector, the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange recently published guidance on required steps to determine if an event needs to be reported. And an IBM researcher has said that companies will not invest in data privacy until “society demands it.”
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