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Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 Million Credit Cards

Posted by timothy on Monday February 17, 2003 @04:05PM 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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Re:Mitnick... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-17 16:20 · Score: -1, Redundant

LOL!!!!
Re:PIN numbers? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-02-17 17:00 · Score: -1, Redundant

Oh all the online sites would prolly 'remember' the pin for you too along with all the other data they insist on insecurely storing.

They need to NOT store data. Process and throw it away. And for god sakes if for some audit trail they have to store it, then it should be encrypted and isolated from the net.