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Security Breach Exposes 40M Credit Cards

Posted by Zonk on from the consider-the-planet-hacked dept.

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."

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  1. My Card? by valjean78 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is there a form somewhere that I can enter my credit card information to check if my cc number has been comprimised? :p

    1. Re:My Card? by arose · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm setting one up right now... :-P

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  2. Re:Proves that the hackers... by Ian+Jefferies · · Score: 5, Funny

    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)

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  3. There are some numbers hackers can't steal. by game+kid · · Score: 5, Funny

    there are some numbers hackers can't steal

    for everything else there's MasterCard

    (Accepted all over, even if it's not yours.)

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