Target Credit-Card Hacking Story Optioned for Possible Sony Feature Film

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Target Credit-Card Hacking Story Optioned for Possible Sony Feature Film
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The web-security blogger and ****** whisperer who first exposed Target (http://mashable.com/category/target/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)’s massive credit-card breach may be the subject of a feature film at Sony, which has optioned rights to the story for a potential cyber thriller, Mashable confirmed Wednesday

Brian Krebs, a former tech**logy reporter for The Washington Post who has deep sources in the cyber-criminal underworld, broke the news of a devastating retail hack last December on KrebsonSecurity.com (http://krebsonsecurity.com/)Tens of millions of customers’ credit-card information was exposed in the breach (http://mashable.com/2014/01/10/target-70-million-data-breach/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), which could have repercussions for years to come.

See also: Target Sales, Profit Fell in Q4 Following Massive Data Breach (http://mashable.com/2014/02/26/target/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/19/target-sony-film/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


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