On December 18 Target reported that there credit card secuirty system has been breached. A total of 40 million credit card numbers have been stolen. Some reports indicate that the card numbers were found on a blackmarket website that sells "dumped" cards, or cards that have had the magnetic strip replicated to blank card.
Since the dawn of the digital age in the 1990s, illegal downloading of information, music, movies, software, and content has become an issue leading to major shifting in the way these industries do business. It's been hard to contain this issue of illegal downloading, but the latest attempt, the Copyright Alert System, looks promising.