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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.

TipperCoin is attempting to combine two concepts that have faced strong headwinds in the past year: digital currency and Twitter-based payments.

Debit spending increased 12% on the shopping days following Thanksgiving, according to payments processor The Members Group.

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.

Emerging payments developers shouldn't feel forced to place all their bets on one platform or another. In the shorter term, successful future models of banking will be hybrids.

In the past few years, the payments industry has experienced a flood of new offerings, from consumer-facing giants like PayPal and Google to Silicon Valley startups such as Square.

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.