from the cards. that s names, account numbers, expiration dates and security codes among some of the information there. after angry reaction from customers, target sent out an e-mail blast apologizing for that breach. they say they re working with a forensics firm and secret service to find the culprits. joining us, cnbc personal finance correspondent sharon epperson and bob sullivan. sharon, let s start with this. if i did shop at target, what should i do? the first thing you need to do is review your credit and debit card accounts and hopefully you have it online and you can go there immediately and see what s happened. the other thing everyone should do, even if you re not a victim of this, you haven t shopped at target in the last couple of weeks, check your credit report. everyone should get a free copy of your credit report. you can do that from annualcreditreport.com. and the other thing that you can do if you think that you have been a victim of the identity theft or think th
closer to christmas. live on the hill, thank you. irs is reportedly paying companies that do not pay taxes hundreds of millions of dlashs a year for r services. the washington times reports the internal audit found 7% of vendors had a combined $589 million in federal tax debt. general law bars companies with unpaid tax liabilities from getting government contracts. the inspector general s report says there are not sufficient controls. the hirirs says it will correcte problem. if you have bought at a target store this holiday season, check your debit and credit cards carefully. 40 million accounts were affected by pay data breach. it includes name, card numbers, expiration dates, security codes. target is not saying how the breach occurred but says it has fixed the problem.
i m brooke baldwin. we continue on, hour two. thanks for being with me today. this is a huge, huge deal. if you have been shopping at a target store lately, keep a very close eye on your credit card or debit card statements because someone hacked target. of all places, huge, huge chain store right there, at the little swipe machine by the register. at risk, 40 million accounts. stolen. names, card numbers, expiration dates, and those three or four digit security codes. target says the problem that allowed the security breach has been fixed. it brought in this outside forensics team to investigate. secret service is on the case as well. but you should be concerned if you used a debit or credit card in a target store. let s be precise here, between right around thanksgiving, between november 27th and december 15th. shoppers on target s website are not affected. so this is in-store shopping i m talking about. target s ceo saying this,
behavior, unquote. maybe he hadn t killed anyone lately. he was going to visit his aging mother. instead the cops say the carjacked a man at gunpoint and there s been no sign of him since. he was in prison for stoning to death a hooker. he later escaped and killed two more people so they let him out to visit his mother. thieves have managed to access nearly 040 million credit and debit accounts from shoppers over more than three weeks, including black friday. everything since black friday, according to target. this is one of the largest security breaches in history. target is urging customers to check and recheck card statements for anything suspicious. target reports the stolen data includes customer names, credit card and debit card numbers, including expiration dates and in many cases the three or four digit security codes.
time since sandy hook, and it strikes me that gun control advocates will look at this and say, here s more evidence we need tougher restrictions on guns, and gun right supporters will tell you here s more evidence there should be armed guards in schools. we ll learn in the hours or days ahead houston strict their security how strict their security is in some schools they implemented very strict security codes and? places doors were locked, you had to have permission to enter campus. this is a school eight miles away and i don t know the specifics of the rules at arapaho. some schools have metal detectors that you must walk through before you enter the school. i don t know if they have that in this school district either, but they do obviously take precautions, they don t want kids walking into school with weapons and they try to prevent that from happening. somehow his died got in with a gun. just got an update from our local station in denver. their reporter is now reporting t