Security Experts Say Data Thieves Are Getting Harder To Fight
“It’s clear that there is a new bout of attacks,” Litan says. She says data thieves struck several years ago at T.J. Maxx, J.C. Penney and Target and that they could be back, though it might be a different gang of thieves.
Litan blames, in large part, the magnetic payment strip system, which she says is more vulnerable than systems used by other countries around the world that have smart chips embedded in credit cards.
