PrivacyHigh
Excessive Automated Monitoring Alerts Ignored by Staff, Resulting in Private Data Theft of Seventy Million Target Customers
- Occurred
- Nov 27, 2013
- Published
- May 3, 2017
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Alerts about a Target data breach were ignored by Minneapolis Target’s staff reportedly due to them being included with many other potential false alerts, and due to some of the company’s network infiltration alerting systems being off to reduce such false alerts, causing private data theft for millions of customers.
Developers
- FireEye
Deployers
- Target
Harmed parties
- Target
- Target customers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Mass data breach affecting 70 million customers due to ignored security alerts.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8