Excessive Automated Monitoring Alerts Ignored by Staff, Resulting in Private Data Theft of Seventy Million Target Customers
Date: 2013-11-27
Affected: Fireeye, Target
Attack vector: data-exfiltration
Category: real-world
Severity: Critical

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #193: Excessive Automated Monitoring Alerts Ignored by Staff, Resulting in Private Data Theft of Seventy Million Target Customers. Alleged deployer/developer: Fireeye, Target. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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