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Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 Million Credit Cards

Posted by timothy on from the check-yer-wallet dept.

Doctor Sbaitso writes "CNN reports that a hacker bypassed the security system of a company that processes credit card transactions and gained access to approximately 2.2 million Visa and MasterCard credit cards. Fortunately, none of them seem to have been used fraudulently."

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  1. Re:I heard - by letxa2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Do you blame him? He needs to get the money somewhere to pay back the French since they're obviously opposing war in the hopes of seeing some debt repaid.

    If your credit card was stolen, the terrorist have already won! :)

  2. I can't believe nobody has said... by Tsar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those!"

    Still, this might leave some folks short on cache.

  3. sick of the misuse of the word Hacker by nurb432 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They are not hackers.. true hackers don't profit or harm things they learn only.

    Cracker is the correct term to use.

    Gives all us old timers a bad name due to public association.

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