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Cybersecurity Expert Looks At Target Data Theft

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Paul Tuthill

Published December 20, 2013 at 6:25 PM EST

The security breach at Target that affected an estimated 40 million credit and debit card accounts has unnerved people as the holiday shopping season nears a peak. What exactly happened is still unknown. WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill spoke with Larry Snyder, the director of the Cybersecurity Management Program at Bay Path College.

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Paul Tuthill

Paul Tuthill is WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief. He’s been covering news, everything from politics and government corruption to natural disasters and the arts, in western Massachusetts since 2007. Before joining WAMC, Paul was a reporter and anchor at WRKO in Boston. He was news director for more than a decade at WTAG in Worcester. Paul has won more than two dozen Associated Press Broadcast Awards. He won an Edward R. Murrow award for reporting on veterans’ healthcare for WAMC in 2011. Born and raised in western New York, Paul did his first radio reporting while he was a student at the University of Rochester.

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