Jan 18th 2014, 17:59, by Andrew Webster
The security breach that impacted 70 million Target customers last month may have been caused by malware created by a 17-year-old Russian hacker. While the suspected teenager wasn't actually responsible for perpetrating the attacks, he did reportedly write the software, known as BlackPOS, that was used after being purchased by the eventual attackers. The news comes courtesy "multi-tier intelligence aggregator" IntelCrawler, which reports that the malware used during the Target breach "may have" also been a part of a similar attack on retailer Neiman Marcus.
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