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Experts: Target hackers will be tough to find

By Bree Fowler
Published January 22, 2014 7:55pm ET
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Experts: Target hackers will be tough to find
Credit cards that were confiscated are displayed at the McAllen Police Department in McAllen, Texas, after McAllen police arrested a man and a woman on fraud charges, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. According to a South Texas police chief, the suspects used account information stolen during the Target security breach to buy tens of thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise, but a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said Tuesday that an investigation is ongoing into the possibility of a link between the Target data breach and the arrests. (AP Photo/The Monitor, Gabe Hernandez) | Gabe Hernandez

NEW YORK (AP) — The hackers behind the recent Target data breach are likely a world away and nearly impossible to find.

That’s the consensus among outside cybercrime experts as Target, the Secret Service and the FBI continue their investigation of the pre-Christmas data heist in which hackers stole about 40 million debit and credit card numbers and also took personal information — including email addresses, phone numbers, names and home addresses — for another 70 million people.

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