MARQUEZ: Welcome back to EARLY START. It is "Money Time." And Alison Kosik is here with "Money Time."</s>KOSIK: Yes.</s>MARQUEZ: How exciting.</s>KOSIK: This happens to be the best day of the year to be in the stock market at least if you look at historical standards. Going back to 1945, the S&P; 500 index has risen on December 26 almost 79 percent of the time. At least, that's according to analytics group, BeSpoke Investment. So, it looks like Boxing Day appears to carry some extra punch for the stock market. And so far, this year, the market has been knocking out skeptics. You look at the Dow. It's up 25 percent. The NASDAQ is up 38 percent. The S&P; 500 up 29 percent. Wooh! And The Santa Claus rally, it's been good for internet stocks like Facebook which has been pushing 52 week highs. Facebook is up 23 percent in December alone. That's really the comeback kid. Yahoo! also having a good December, up 10 percent so far. It hit a 52-week high on Christmas Eve. This is pretty disturbing. Reuters is reporting that despite what Target's public relations team is saying, that hackers managed to steal encrypted personal identification numbers or PINs. Reuters says it was told this by a senior payment executive familiar with the situation but who spoke anonymously because the data breach is under investigation. Here's the concern according to Reuters is that the kind of sophisticated cyber criminals who stole the information for 40 million credit and debit cards, they may be able to crack the encrypted data. That could be one reason JPMorgan Chase limited how much cash customers could take from ATMs and spend at stores</s>MARQUEZ: It is amazing how quickly they can grab so much.</s>KOSIK: Yes.</s>MARQUEZ: Alison, thank you very much. We'll be right back with more.
Target Hackers Stole Encrypted Pins