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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. Re:Credit Card by NineNine · · Score: 5, Informative

    EVERYONE with a Visa or Mastercard has fraud protection. It's a federal law. You probably didn't know that, and were suckered into paying extra for it.