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60,000 Credit Cards Numbers Stolen Online

Posted by timothy on from the send-your-number-here-to-check dept.

robl writes "140,000 credit card numbers were tested for validity yielding about 62,000 valid credit card numbers and $300,000 of fraudulent charges. A good quote: "There wasn't a system in place to say, 'you've generated 140,000 charges, that's more than your normal volume.'" As Schneier-heads would say, it's a brittle system -- when the security fails, it fails badly."

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  1. Microsoft needs some new cards by phorm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    To pay for better editors and columnists who can actually spell!

    IMG:INTERACTIVES 'Brute force' card theives attack - I think that this should be spelled thieves

    Or maybe they're just rolling our the new MSN - "Microsoft" Version of the English language...

    "i" before "e" except after "c". Kindergarten time for MS - phorm