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Breach Exposes 19,000 Active US, UK Credit Cards

Posted by timothy on from the need-two-part-authentication dept.

pnorth writes "A defunct payment gateway has exposed as many as 19,000 credit card numbers of US and UK consumers in a major worldwide breach. The data, held in Google cache, includes credit card numbers, CVVs, expiry dates, names and addresses. The credit card numbers are for accounts held with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Solo, Switch, Delta and Maestro/Cirrus. Within the address bars of the cached pages are URLs of e-commerce sites that have become victims of the breach. They include clothing, science, health, sports and photo imaging stores. The cause appears to be a known issue with the Google search engine, in which the pages of defunct web sites containing sensitive directories remain cached and available to anyone."

7 of 232 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Cashless Society by gravos · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cashless is old hat. What we really need is a cacheless society.

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    This game will waste your life. Don't clicky!
  2. Re:Shoot the messenger! by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google should take SOME blame.

    I held a robots.txt poster up at my window and google streetmap still photographed it.

  3. Re:Who are the lucky ones? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    google you credit card and CVV here, and post a link to the results here. It's the best way you can be sure you card is compromised.

  4. Re:Cashless Society by unlametheweak · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not sure how many people realize that the vast majority of wealth is not in paper form, nor could it be.

    Yeah, it's in the imaginations of people who buy financial instruments like stocks and bonds.

  5. whirlpool discussion threat by fluch · · Score: 4, Funny

    ITNews links to a discussion threat at whirlpool.net.au which has been deleted because it is "handeled by the authorities".

    And again it is a known issue of Google which reveals the deleted thread: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:uf9L_DtjAzYJ:forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1165021.html+http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm%3Ft%3D1165021&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk

    - Martin ;-)

  6. Re:Shoot the messenger! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://boingboing.net/images/googlevan.jpg

  7. Re:Who are the lucky ones? by atraintocry · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fool me seven times, shame on you. Fool me eight or more times, shame on me.