Global Security Watch > Credit card security breach

http://www.djacobson.com/australian_regulatory_rev [Australian Regulatory Review (including Financial Services Industry Regulation)] According to ZDNet the largest ever data security breach has hit MasterCard and Visa: MasterCard International on Friday said information on more than 40 million credit cards may have been stolen. Of those exposed accounts, about 13.9 million are for MasterCard-branded cards, the company said in a statement.

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Waltbren.com[Waltbren.com] WaltBren Weblog » Blog Archive » MasterCard Security Breach Called ...: MasterCard International on Friday said a security breach of credit card payment data had exposed about 40 million cards of all brands to potential fraud in what one analyst said was the biggest privacy breach ever.

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