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3. The hackers sent credit card number-stealing malware to cashier stationsin all domestic Target stores.4. They also installed malicious code that sent credit card data to threehijacked “staging point” servers in the U.S. before the data headed to Moscow.5. On December 2nd, the credit card numbers started flowing out. Target’ssecurity system detected the hack, but the company failed to act.6. Federal investigators warned Target of a data breach on December 12th.7. Target confirmed and eradicated the malware on December 15th, after 40million credit card numbers had been stolen. 15C. What’s in it for the Bad Guys?Besides the “who” and the “what,” many people want to know why hackers and cybercriminals go to all the trouble to steal certain data and information. The reasons cangenerally be grouped into three categories: money, competition, and politics.1. Data Breach is Big Business.Many law-abiding citizens do not realize there is a massive underground market forstolen payment, healthcare, and personal identity information. Data breach is big15 Michael Riley, Ben Elgin, Dune Lawrence, and Carol Matlack, Missed Alarms and 40 Million StolenCredit Card Numbers: How Target Blew It, Bloomberg Businessweek (March 13, 2014),http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-13/target-missed-alarms-in-epic-hack-of-credit-carddata(last visited Jan. 13, 2015).March 6, 2015 10 © 3-6-2015 ALFA International Business Litigation P.G.