The Security Mentor

They had a security breach and an unknown number of credit card numbers got exposed. In the worst case it was about 40 million.

I hope the press coverage I'm reading is scrambled like it usually is. According to the International Herald Tribune,

One likely entry point may have been through checkout terminals, which are typically connected to the Internet.

There are so few good reasons for putting a point of sale terminal on the Internet, and so many security risks, that it's hard to imagine anyone doing that.