Target announced Friday that sensitive information, including customers’ names, mailing addresses, phone numbers and email addresses, was stolen from up to 70 million people in the late November to early December data breach.
The company had previously reported that 40 million credit and debit card accounts were taken during the breach that took place over the first few weeks of the holiday shopping season. However, during the company’s ongoing investigation into the data breach, it discovered that additional customer information was stolen, including mailing addresses, phone numbers and emails.
Target is offering one year of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection to anyone who shopped in their U.S. stores.
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