Just in time for the holiday season a major ID theft has been reported at Target
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 theft marks the second largest credit card breach in the U.S. after retailer TJX Cos. announced in 2007 that at least 45.7 million credit and debit card users were exposed to credit card fraud.
Odds are pretty good some Kossacks had their data stolen.
This really is part of the bigger picture with the NSA and companies like Google siphoning every piece of data they can on every customer or citizen. Nobody has figured out how to keep this information secure. Nobody. Which means those vast troves of data in Google's server farms or in a building in New Mexico for the NSA are targets for thieves. If the data wasn't collected it wouldn't be available for theft.