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Re: Worst Phishing Fraud Attack Ever! 40 Million Cards Affected

Steve Sobol (sjsobol@JustThe.net)
Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:37:09 -0700

Lisa Minter wrote:

> "Hardly a week goes by without startling new examples of breaches of
> sensitive personal data, reminding us how important it is to pass a
> comprehensive identity theft prevention bill in Congress quickly,"
> said Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y.

Startling? I am not even surprised by junk like this anymore.

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: My thanks to Lisa for rounding up this
> item. So what do we do now? Discontinue any/all shopping on the
> web where Card Systems is the processor? What information _is_ safe
> to give over the net any longer? Any at all? PAT]

???

Who said anything about the Internet? This particular breach would
affect much more than just Internet transactions. This is apparently a
backend system that was breached. Non-Internet transactions could also
have been exposed.

And there's no way to avoid Card Systems, because we don't do business
with them directly, and as far as I know, neither do the
merchants. They deal with the card issuers.

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