Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

2 of 232 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Cashless Society by grahamm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I can remember when cash on delivery was common in the UK. Now you cannot even pay the postman if the sender has underpayed the postage or there are customs charges to pay - the postman just leaves a card and you have to go to the delivery office, pay and collect.

  2. COD by TheLink · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Regarding COD nowadays. I doubt most honest and sane people would like to be the postman carrying the $$$$.

    Crooks already rob pizza delivery workers.

    --