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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Target Corporation
Current Parent Company: Target
Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement:  subscribe to see this data field
Penalty: $18,500,000
Year: 2017
Date: May 23, 2017
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: privacy violation
Violation Description: Target agreed to pay $18.5 million to settle multistate limitation alleging that over 40 million customers had their payment card information compromised during the 2013 holiday season after the company failed to provide reasonable data security.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Attorneys General Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Minnesota
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-discount stores
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.