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Sith_Mauler  4 stars
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Registered: 2002-12-21 13:40:03
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Data from more than 100 million credit and debit cards stolen.
DEVELOPING: MasterCard is investigating a possible breach of cardholder account data involving a U.S.-based payment processor, the company said Friday.

"As a result, we have alerted payment card issuers regarding certain MasterCard accounts that are potentially at risk," the Purchase, N.Y., credit-card company said in a statement.

Law enforcement officials have been notified of the matter and an "independent data security organization" is conducting an ongoing forensic review.

The company is alerting card-issuing banks regarding "certain MasterCard accounts that are potentially at risk."

"MasterCard's own systems have not been compromised in any manner," the statement continued.

A MasterCard spokesman declined to say how many cards may have been compromised or how many banks it is notifying, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/03/30/visa-mastercard-warn-massive-security-breach-report-says/#ixzz1qc2KjTFB

 

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winga  4 stars
Title: Canadian
Posts: 2,256
Registered: 2001-4-27 15:46:32
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Data from more than 100 million credit and debit cards stolen.
Well that sucks.
HeartView  4 stars
Title: Be right back...
Posts: 1,209
Registered: 2001-12-20 08:11:56
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Data from more than 100 million credit and debit cards stolen.
All my stuff is Visa... am I safe?

 

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JD_HOGG  4 stars
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Registered: 2008-3-18 08:04:21
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Data from more than 100 million credit and debit cards stolen.
HeartView posted:
All my stuff is Visa... am I safe?



thnkx for infor, passed on to Anon.
AliHajiSheik  1 star
Posts: 143
Registered: 2003-1-5 08:42:33
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Data from more than 100 million credit and debit cards stolen.
Crap, I pay my Visa with my Mastercard.

 

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-Abysmal-  4 stars
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Registered: 2000-12-20 06:45:24
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Data from more than 100 million credit and debit cards stolen.
HeartView posted:
All my stuff is Visa... am I safe?



in this specific case, yes, in general NO

so there goes 100 million more subscriptions into credit monitoring agencies!

sucks that credit is so important but easy to screw up and HELL to fix!

 

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HeartView  4 stars
Title: Be right back...
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Registered: 2001-12-20 08:11:56
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Data from more than 100 million credit and debit cards stolen.
Here is another article that says it may affect ALL card issuers, not just MasterCard:

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/massive-credit-card-breach-reportedly-hits-visa-mastercard.ars

 

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Steelwind_Oo  4 stars
Title: Lurking Oo
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Registered: 2000-9-30 10:26:30
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Data from more than 100 million credit and debit cards stolen.
The downside of taking everything electronic. Everything gets passed through a few key systems (specially credit cards) and they are complex systems so security is always a big headache.

 

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Sith_Mauler  4 stars
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Registered: 2002-12-21 13:40:03
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Data from more than 100 million credit and debit cards stolen.
Steelwind_Oo posted:
The downside of taking everything electronic. Everything gets passed through a few key systems (specially credit cards) and they are complex systems so security is always a big headache.



especially when you factor in human greed.

 

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Kriegprojekt  3 stars
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Registered: 2010-4-12 13:06:28
 Date Posted: 1/1/00 12:00am Subject: Data from more than 100 million credit and debit cards stolen.
10 million, not 100 million.

 

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