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CardSystems Compromises Data of 40 Million MasterCard and Visa Cardholders
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In case you were listening to the radio or televion news today, yes, you heard it right, and your ears were not deceiving you. The credit card information of 40 million MasterCard and Visa cardholders was compromised when someone hacked into the computers of Arizona-based CardSystems Solutions.
40 million.
That makes the measily 35,000 accounts which were compromised in the ChoicePoint hacking seem paltry by comparison.
Let me just say it again:
40 million
Just how did this happen?
Apparently a hacker had managed to install a Trojan which gave the hacker access to…
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