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More details of the Target breach continue to be revealed, with the latest intel pointing to the air conditioning guys being used as an entry point by the hackers. The hackers came in through the vents, so to speak.

The big-box giant saw 110 million in-store customers compromised by a widespread point-of-sale (PoS) hack during the busy holiday shopping season, with credit card info and other personal details lifted by the BlackPOS malware that was somehow uploaded from a central server. Target last week confirmed that the server itself was compromised by a third party using stolen credentials.

Now, sources have said that those credentials were likely taken from Fazio Mechanical Services, a provider of refrigeration and HVAC systems for retailers and other businesses.