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Target reports sales decline as discretionary spending remains tepid

by Jaewon Kang Bloomberg May 22, 2024May 22, 2024

U.S. consumers remain resilient, though the broader environment remains complicated and challenging, executives said.

One of just two indoor ranges in Maine: Owner is ready to talk guns

by Douglas McIntire, Staff Writer January 11, 2015

POLAND — Nestled off Maine Street, a clapboard house abuts a log cabin resembling an old Western trading post. A sign outside reads: “Anti-ISIS guns here.” From the parking lot, a gentle tapping can be heard, as if someone on a far hill was roofing his house, a far gentler noise than one might expect […]

Business, Local & State

Gotcha: Thousands of Mainers unwitting victims of data breaches in 2013

by Kathryn Skelton, Staff Writer February 23, 2014

All those people shopping Stethoscope.com at Christmas got a nasty surprise, and a stethoscope. After the website was hacked over a two-month period, 122 Maine customers were alerted last January that their financial details may have been exposed. They were just some of the 151,000 Mainers who received word in 2013 that their Social Security […]

Business, Nation / World, sj-web

Target says encrypted PIN data was stolen

by The Associated Press December 27, 2013

ATLANTA — Target said Friday that debit-card PIN numbers were among the financial information stolen from millions of customers who shopped at the retailer earlier this month. The company said the stolen personal identification numbers, which customers type in to keypads to make secure transactions, were encrypted and that this strongly reduces risk to customers. […]

Nation / World, sj-web

Weak U.S. card security made Target a juicy target

by The Associated Press December 23, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. is the juiciest target for hackers hunting credit card information. And experts say incidents like the recent data theft at Target’s stores will get worse before they get better. That’s in part because U.S. credit and debit cards rely on an easy-to-copy magnetic strip on the back of the […]

Nation / World, sj-web

Target: 40M card accounts may be breached

by Anne D'Innocenzio and Michelle Chapman, AP Business Writers December 19, 2013

MINNEAPOLIS — Target is grappling with security and a public relations nightmare just as the holiday shopping season is wrapping up. The nation’s second largest discounter said Thursday that data connected to about 40 million credit and debit card accounts was stolen as part of a breach that began over the Thanksgiving weekend. The data […]