Scope of CardSystems-caused credit card data theft broadens

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Credit card data theft could grow in
scale

Credit card data theft could grow in
scale 04/14/2005 03:47 PM
Blog: Both MasterCard and Visa have confirmed a security breach at a U.S. based retailer that may have compromised the credit card...

GM credit card holders warned of data
theft

GM credit card holders warned of data
theft 04/16/2005 05:46 AM
Houston Chronicle Apr 16 2005 10:22AM GMT

CardSystems data-theft incident shows
how vulnerable some financial-services
com

CardSystems data-theft incident shows
how vulnerable some financial-services
com 06/24/2005 08:29 PM

Scope of credit card security breach
expands

Scope of credit card security breach
expands 04/14/2005 07:50 PM
A security breach at a U.S. retail chain may affect more people than originally reported, as several banks and credit card-issuing companies try to determine whether shoppers' personal data may have been exposed or stolen.

Update: Scope of credit card security
breach expands

Update: Scope of credit card security
breach expands 04/15/2005 03:15 PM
Computerworld Apr 15 2005 6:58PM GMT

Credit Card ID Theft Affects 180,000

Credit Card ID Theft Affects 180,000 04/14/2005 09:22 AM
180,000 individuals that used their MasterCard credit cards at Polo Ralph Lauren stores are being informed that they may have had their personal information compromised, British bank HSBC revealed on Wednesday. In particular, the theft seems to be limited to those carrying GM-branded MasterCards.

* Four arrested for online theft, credit
card fraud

* Four arrested for online theft, credit
card fraud 07/16/2004 04:58 AM
Taipeitimes.com - Fri Jul 16, 08:52 am GMT

What Everybody Ought to Know about
Protecting Themselves from Credit Card
Fraud and Identity Theft

What Everybody Ought to Know about
Protecting Themselves from Credit Card
Fraud and Identity Theft 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
Protecting yourself from credit card fraud and identity theft has become even more important with the unrelenting succession of security breaches, such as last week's theft of 40 million credit card numbers. Here are seven specific things you can do now to help protect yourself from credit card fraud and identity theft. [PRWEB Jun 21, 2005]

BJ's Credit Card Theft: Part of a
Growing Trend

BJ's Credit Card Theft: Part of a
Growing Trend 05/23/2004 11:57 PM
The theft of tens of thousands of credit card numbers from a database belonging to BJ's Wholesale Club demonstrates cyber-crime's entry into daily life.

Court Broadens Scope of
Age-Discrimination Protections

Court Broadens Scope of
Age-Discrimination Protections 03/30/2005 05:12 PM
The Supreme Court ruled that workers can sue for age discrimination without proving that the discrimination was intentional.

Mystery virus targets credit card data

Mystery virus targets credit card data 06/26/2004 05:59 AM
iafrica.com Jun 26 2004 10:33AM GMT

Massive Credit Card Security Breach Puts
40 Million Consumers at Risk for
Identity Theft – Tips to Protect
Yourself from Financial Expert

Massive Credit Card Security Breach Puts
40 Million Consumers at Risk for
Identity Theft – Tips to Protect
Yourself from Financial Expert 06/22/2005 01:51 AM
Master Card and Visa security breaches are becoming almost common. Last week’s announcement of hackers accessing records from CardSystems Solutions Inc. means up to 40 million credit card holders may be at risk of identity theft. Financial Planning Expert Jim Trippon CPA offers practical pro-active ideas to protect your financial privacy. [PRWEB Jun 19, 2005]

Reducing the attack surface area of
credit card data

Reducing the attack surface area of
credit card data 06/22/2005 02:34 AM
Whenever another batch of millions of credit card numbers is compromised, as happened again recently, the same reactions predictably ensue. Security experts climb out of the woodwork offering interviews on how to harden computers and networks. Payment processors acknowledge m ishandling of records. But nobody talks about reducing the attack surface area so that when systems are breached, and when procedures aren't properly followed, the consequences are far less severe. ...

Black Market in Stolen Credit Card Data
Thrives on Internet

Black Market in Stolen Credit Card Data
Thrives on Internet 06/22/2005 02:03 AM
Despite years of security improvements, credit card and bank account numbers are boldly hawked on the Internet.

CardSystems should not have retained
stolen customer data

CardSystems should not have retained
stolen customer data 06/22/2005 01:58 AM
Late last week, MasterCard announced that tens of thousands of credit card numbers had been stolen from a payment processor. Now it turns out that the processor in question should not have retained the stolen data in the first place.

Microsoft Software to Blame for the
CardSystems Solutions Data Security
Breach?

Microsoft Software to Blame for the
CardSystems Solutions Data Security
Breach? 06/22/2005 02:14 AM
Softpedia Jun 22 2005 5:59AM GMT

Credit Firms Resist Anti-ID Theft
Measure

Credit Firms Resist Anti-ID Theft
Measure 08/01/2004 10:02 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Aug 2 2004 2:04AM GMT

Man pleads guilty in massive credit info
theft case

Man pleads guilty in massive credit info
theft case 09/15/2004 01:34 PM
A man charged in one of the largest identity theft scams in U.S. history pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and fraud in connection with identity documents Tuesday and could face up to 50 years in prison, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney David Kelley, of the Southern District of New York.

3G's success depends on managing strain
caused by excess billing data

3G's success depends on managing strain
caused by excess billing data 12/30/2003 05:20 PM
Telecoms.com Dec 30 2003 4:18PM ET

Credit Card Caddy 0.1

Credit Card Caddy 0.1 06/06/2004 06:50 AM
A tool for setting and viewing options for paying off your credit cards.

maxed-out credit card

maxed-out credit card 11/02/2003 03:13 AM
"hot check" writing .. nathan newman .. Newman

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credit card debt

credit card debt 06/06/2004 08:12 AM

e-credit-card-debt.com
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Is PayPal The Fifth Credit Card?

Is PayPal The Fifth Credit Card? 05/03/2004 01:45 PM
After working incredibly hard in the legal arena to make sure that they weren't declared a bank, PayPal is now doing much more to appear bank-like to websites that want to take transactions. They're implementing a series of web services designed to make it easier to incorporate a PayPal option for commerce sites, along with traditional credit cards. Of course, some are pointing out that the demand just isn't there for such things. The end-users don't see much benefit if the site already has a merchant account and can offer credit card payments. There isn't much of a benefit to end users to use PayPal when they can just as easily use a credit card. The only advantage is to sites that can't afford or don't want a merchant account of their own - and they're probably already using PayPal.

The Credit Card Prank II

The Credit Card Prank II 03/22/2005 03:18 PM
credit card receipts with fake names .. The Credit Card Prank II .. signature verification

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I Want An Apple Credit Card

I Want An Apple Credit Card 08/06/2004 11:30 AM
The possibilities are endless for an Apple Credit Card and I can't wait to have one in my wallet. How about you? By Gregory Ng, Apple Matters (via MyAppleMenu)

Credit Card Fraud

Credit Card Fraud 06/14/2004 12:51 AM
My wife was hit by credit card fraud last week - somehow, someone managed to get her credit card number and used it to make charges to AOL - setting up an email account in my wife's name that even used our actual address, phone number etc. Register.com - two charges were made here which were subsequently reimbursed before we... (328 words)

PayPal, The Fifth Credit Card?

PayPal, The Fifth Credit Card? 05/03/2004 06:01 PM
Not quite. But the popular online payment company's new Web services platform adds more detail to credit card purchases online.

Googling your credit card

Googling your credit card 08/04/2004 11:54 AM
Source: News.com - Simple queries using the Google search engine can turn up a handful of sites that have posted credit card information to the Web, CNET News.com learned on Tuesday....

Watch where you use your credit card!

Watch where you use your credit card! 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
Porn scams cost consumers 230 Million dollars. Nothing like Sex to spice up a story. Seems that a lot of...

UK credit card fraud down 8%

UK credit card fraud down 8% 03/08/2004 11:14 PM

Wave the Card for Instant Credit

Wave the Card for Instant Credit 12/15/2003 05:51 AM
Credit card companies want to make spending even easier: They are testing a new 'contactless' credit card that charges an account when it's wafted past a special reader. Some experts warn security is the biggest obstacle.

Credit Card Breaches Not Only Old Hat,
But Also Declining

Credit Card Breaches Not Only Old Hat,
But Also Declining 06/22/2005 02:17 AM
In the wake of CardSystems outra geous 40 million customer data exposure and its seemi ngly quaint predecessors, the Monday morning quarterbacks are weighing to explain what we've all known for a while now: security breaches of this kind are nothing new, it's just that we're finding out about them more. In fact, the evidence shows that the incidence of credit card fraud is actually declining. Turns out that banks and merchants have been tackling this issue for some time, and actually reduced illegal credit card purchases by $100 million between 2003 and 2004. The industry still has a ways to go (after all, $788 million worth of fraud is still a serious problem), but at least there are signs of improvement. The same can't be said of identity theft, which the BusinessWeek story says is slightly on the rise and probably fueling the misperception about fraud in general. Of course, identity theft is a much more damaging crime with fewer solutions than a bunch of fake charges on your credit card. And, scammers don't need to swipe tons of data to cause widespread problems. Just a couple hundred thousand people's info will do.

Entering credit card numbers

Entering credit card numbers 02/10/2004 02:44 PM
Bruce Tognazzini writes in his Ask Tog column Top 10 Reasons to Not Shop On Line: "...Why can’t I input my credit card number the way it appears on the card? Why do I have to suck the extra spaces out, making it all but impossible to re-scan it for errors? We’re talking three spaces here, three bytes." (via Usability Views) I will quite often try to see if a credit card number field gives me enough room to enter it with spaces. If it does, I will then delete the spaces because I know so many places can't handle them. Any of you web programmers out there, tell me you couldn't write code to strip three spaces out of a credit card number? We're talking regular expressions 101 here. In a similar vein, I once asked a programmer I was working with to allow social security numbers to accept both no spaces or hyphens, and they told me the code to take hyphens out was easier than the code insisting the user enter it without hyphens....

NEC's Credit Card Phone

NEC's Credit Card Phone 04/09/2004 03:55 PM
JOEL JOHNSON -- Don't get too riled up: this NEC N900 cameraphone is available only in China for now. Plus it can only be used with a headset, but that only makes the credit-card sized device a tiny bit less desirable. Read...

Casio's Credit Card Watch

Casio's Credit Card Watch 06/13/2004 02:24 AM

A Different Kind of Credit Card
Statement

A Different Kind of Credit Card
Statement 04/30/2004 12:44 AM

Visa Toys With Credit Card Displays

"Visa International is experimenting with credit cards that include a small display screen where customers could view recent transactions, bank balances, or local currency exchange rates, says Deborah Arnold, Visa's vice president of global consumer strategies....

Visa expects to have produced working prototypes of the devices in about a year's time, Arnold says, although with security and other technology issues still to be ironed out, it's likely to be a few years before such cards become widely available. In addition, the LCD-like screens being used in early designs are too fragile for everyday use, Arnold says....

Another issue with the use of display screens on credit cards is cost-effectiveness, she says. 'It's all expensive--the cost of the battery, the display, hooking [the display] up to the chip. The initial cards with these displays are going to be very expensive,' she says....

Clearly, displaying personal account information on a card presents potential security concerns, and Visa is looking at technologies such as biometrics and passwords to secure access. Banks and end users will help to determine how much security is necessary, and certain information, such as points accrued through loyalty programs, might not need much protection, she says." [PCWorld.com]

An interesting idea, and you have to wonder if these catch on someday, will patrons expect to be able to read their library cards, too? Could be kind of handy to be able to whip out your library card and see which items you have checked out and when they're due.

NEC Shows Off TV and Credit-Card Phones

NEC Shows Off TV and Credit-Card Phones 08/16/2004 04:22 PM
Extreme Tech Aug 16 2004 8:15PM GMT

Sneaky Credit Card Tactics

Sneaky Credit Card Tactics 08/17/2004 09:04 AM
Keep an eye on your credit card issuers -- they may be about to raise your rates.

Credit card details published on Web

Credit card details published on Web 07/05/2004 07:57 AM
It was five years ago today... 5 July 1999
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