The person blamed is the CIO, in a letter by the CEO.
I’m hearing a lot of chatter that Target treats their IT department as a cost center, so its interesting how/if this huge security breach, and its repercussions (specially legal), will change DM’s view on IT and specially software security.
Dry article
<a class="colorbox" href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2104901/target-cio-resigns-following-breach.html”>http://www.pcworld.com/article/2104901/target-cio-resigns-following-breach.html
and some dark (longer security) reading:
<a class="colorbox" href="http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-and-breaches/target-cios-resignation-7-questions/d/d-id/1114161″>http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-and-breaches/target-cios-resignation-7-questions/d/d-id/1114161