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Security Breach Exposes 40M Credit Cards
The Good Reverend writes "MasterCard International announced today that a security breach at CardSystems Solutions, a third party processor of payment card data, potentially exposed more than 40 million cards. Mastercard is aware of the specific card numbers affected, and is giving its member financial institutions the numbers that may have been compromised. Unlike many of the past high profile cases this one involves a hacker rather than lost packages. CNN Money, the New York Times, Reuters, MSNBC, ZDNet, C|Net, and the Washington Post are also covering the story."
Interest rate: 20%
Annual Fee: $40
Randomly being declined because the machine is on the fritz: $1-$1000 purchase down the drain.
Being the target of fraud through no fault of your own: Priceless.
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To ensure that no one places any fraudulent charges on our credit cards, let's all run out to our favorite toy stores and run up our cards to their limits.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Is there a form somewhere that I can enter my credit card information to check if my cc number has been comprimised? :p
Could someone be so kind to check if my credit card number was exposed?
;-)
My cc number is 5122-5655-1459-0444.
Reverse code: 444
If it was exposed I want to cancel it so the hacker cant use it.
Thanks.
Just wait for the spam social engineering angle to kick in:
"Just enter your credit card details into this site to see if your credit card number was one of those stolen"
(Answer: not until 5 seconds ago)
A physicist is an atom's way of thinking about atoms
there are some numbers hackers can't steal
for everything else there's MasterCard
(Accepted all over, even if it's not yours.)
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.