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22 Jun 2005, 8:41pm
Mastercard has said that over 40 million card accounts were exposed to potential fraud last Friday due to a security breach that occurred at a third-party processor of payment card transactions.
"It looks like a hacker gained access to CardSystems' database and installed a script that acts like a virus, searching out certain types of card transaction data," said MasterCard spokeswoman Jessica Antle.
Submitted by: Dexter
Source: CNNMoney (http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/17/news/master_card/index.htm?cnn=yes)
"It looks like a hacker gained access to CardSystems' database and installed a script that acts like a virus, searching out certain types of card transaction data," said MasterCard spokeswoman Jessica Antle.
Submitted by: Dexter
Source: CNNMoney (http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/17/news/master_card/index.htm?cnn=yes)