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Up To 1.5 Million Visa, MasterCard Credit Card Numbers Stolen

Posted by samzenpus on from the big-score dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Global Payments, the U.S.-based credit card processor company that experienced a security breach affecting Visa and MasterCard, confirmed that the breached portion of its processing system was confined to North America. The company also finally revealed how many credit card numbers were stolen: around 1,500,000."

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  1. Re:Recourse? by robinsonne · · Score: 5, Funny

    None whatsoever, but maybe I should go on a spending spree and max out my card so that the crook(s) have to pay my bill before they can do anything with my card!

  2. Re:Recourse? by MetalliQaZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    I assume that by "the crooks" you mean Mastercard and Visa, right? :)

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    "Here Lies Philip J. Fry, named for his uncle, to carry on his spirit"
  3. Re:Recourse? by tripleevenfall · · Score: 5, Funny

    The burden on the consumer to protect themselves is not high. All you have to do is what you should already be doing, looking over your statement and reporting anything you have questions about.

    Why should I be doing this? I make dozens, perhaps hundreds of transactions each month. My looking over my statement is easily subject to human error.

    Why should you look after your own finances? I wouldn't think higher critical reasoning would be required to convince you to do so.