Approximately 1.5 Million Credit Cards Compromised in Hack

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Submission + - Approximately 1.5 Million Credit Cards Compromised in Hack (tekgoblin.com)

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tekgoblin

on Monday April 02, 2012 @09:46AM

tekgoblin writes: "This isn’t exactly good news for people that own and use credit cards. A credit card processing company called Global Payments may have had a security breach. The security breach on their records affects users with VISA, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover cards potentially. This comes to an approximate total of up to 1.5 million customers affected."

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