From Raids to Recovery
An Analysis of the largest Retail Security Breaches
in the United States

George Mason University
IT 103 Section 222
Fall 2014
By Ignatius Idio

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*Author's Note: This research was conducted for the IT 103-011 "Intro to Computing" Lecture Course

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