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As the impact of Target's data breach continues to widen, credit unions have been more responsive than banks when it comes to issuing new cards, according to two recent online surveys.

Family Focus FCU is helping members whose debit cards have been blocked due to the Target breach still receive 24/7 access to their money.

Google Wallet users who request the accompanying plastic card can activate that card through the wallet's mobile app, a process that will become increasingly common as mobile payments advance, experts say.

The payments industry is full of big ideas that haven't always found the right audience. As we enter 2014, a few trends are bringing new relevance to some older technologies.

Target Corp. said data related to shoppers' personal identification numbers was stolen during the recent breach of its debit and credit card system and that it's "confident" customers' accounts haven't been compromised because the information was encrypted.

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.

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.