Target Corporation Name Course Instructor Date Introduction Businesses are increasingly relying on computers to carry out daily activities, but automation of services has also increased risk of computer attacks. While the biggest fraud cases have tended to focus on insiders in companies like in Enron, vulnerabilities from sophisticated computer attacks can even have more devastating effects on customers. In the case of Target Corporation, data breach led to compromise of details of customers’ credit and debit cards. The data breach affected as many as 40 million Americans, for customer cards using magnetic stripes capable of being swiped at cash registers (Skariachan, 2014)