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Near the end of November of 2013, Target Corporation was hit with an alert of a fissure in their network of crucial transaction data
caused by a virus known as BlackPOS, also known as Kaptoxa. According to Antone Gonsalves of ITworld.com (2014), "BlackPOS was designed by
a Russian teenager to steal credit- and debit-card data from retailers' electronic payment systems." The young creator of BlackPOS was successful
in stealing this valuable information from 40 million credit-debit card holders (D'innocenzio 2014), making it the largest breach in history to date.