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."

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Proves that the hackers...

[bpuli]

will always exploit the weakest link in the chain. MasterCard itself might have the best security but what about all the systems downstream? Wonder how many more of these transactions processors have been compromised and don't even know it yet.