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Target Corp. faces almost two dozen lawsuits filed by customers after a computer security breach exposed data on 40 million debit and credit cards.

Intuit's Mint.com, a personal financial management website that aggregates transaction data from multiple accounts, is scanning its data to identify and alert possible victims of the massive Target Corp. data breach.

Golden 1 Credit Union reported that approximately 67,000 members were affected by the massive Target Corp. card data breach. The credit union will replace all of their debit and credit cards.

Sony Corp., which launched its new PlayStation 4 video game console last month, is updating and promoting the payment options consumers can use with its new and older PlayStation systems.

Target Corp. faces almost two dozen lawsuits filed by customers after a computer security breach exposed data on 40 million debit and credit cards.

Don't let Target's breach of 40 million payment cards overshadow a much scarier incident at Adobe in recent months.

The Minneapolis-based bank has been using mobile and digital watermark technology internally at board meetings to add multimedia elements to what would otherwise be static reports. It is now extending that technology to shopping and payments.

Auto lease credit approvals fell slightly in November compared with October and year-to-date approvals for customer credit finished November at 72.6 percent, compared with October levels of 72.8 percent, according to Swapalease.com, a national car lease marketplace.

A week ago Sunday at about 10:00 a.m., Jim Wells was on his way from church to a grandson's birthday party, when he popped into Target to pick up a gift. By the time he returned home from the party at about 3:30, there was a voicemail message on his machine from Citibank's fraud control department asking him to call because they thought there might have been fraud on his account.

American Express has been ordered by federal regulators to pay nearly $76 million to settle allegations that it used to deceptive marketing and unfair billing practices to sell credit card add-on products to its customers.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased spending and withdrawal limits it imposed on 2 million customers who used debit cards at Target Corp. during the retailer's data breach.

Decoupled debit cards, which draw funds from an account at a separate issuer, are typically framed as a low-cost alternative to bank cards. But in the wake of the massive Target Corp. data breach, security may have suddenly become the product's biggest selling point.

Senator Patrick Leahy pledged to pursue cybersecurity legislation in the wake of a massive data breach at retail giant Target.

JPMorgan Chase and other banks are restricting debit card use by consumers potentially exposed to the retailer's recent data breach, according to reports.

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For banks, the most obvious reaction to the recent compromise of 40 million cards at Target stores would be to re-issue credit and debit cards to all customers who shopped at the retailer. But this approach doesn't seem to be universal.

Target Corp. was sued by a Christmas shopper claiming she may have been exposed to identity theft from a data breach affecting 40 million debit and credit cards.

Card payments account for more than two-thirds of all noncash payments in the U.S., and the number of checks written for payment is less than half of what is was a decade ago, according to the Federal Reserve Bank Services' 2013 payments study.

The credit-card issuer has agreed to loosen its restrictions on fees charged by retailers to consumers, following a similar move by Visa and MasterCard.

If Target can't protect itself from a data breach, how can any retailer hope to do so?