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Protecting yourself from financial data theft

Shopping at Target
Marie Rivage works the cash register at a Target store on December 19, 2013 in Miami, Florida. Target announced that about 40 million credit and debit card accounts of customers who made purchases by swiping their cards at terminals in its U.S. stores between November 27 and December 15 may have been stolen.
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Thursday on The Daily Circuit we spoke with Heidi Moore about how consumers can protect themselves from malicious hackers who are out to steal their personal and financial data.

We had more questions than time, so today we continue the conversation with a personal finance expert.

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