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."

Comments

Re:Good thing I have online banking!

[earthbound kid]

However, before you do online banking, I would recommend you have both antivirus and firewall programs active and run anti-spyware programs at least once a day to keep out keystroke loggers.

Or you could use an OS that's secure enough that you don't have to worry about software installed with your permission.

Seriously, if you're too cheap to buy a Mac Mini, you can at least burn a Linux Live CD. Using that, every time you reset your computer all unauthorized software is removed, 100% guaranteed.

Re:The card number / expiry-date system is stupid

[Waffle Iron]

I often make online purchases from random places

That's rather stupid. Who knows what kind of trojans and/or keyboard loggers might be installed on those random machines?