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Re: Surging Losses, but Few Victims in Data Breaches
From: blitz <blitz () strikenet kicks-ass net>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:57:50 -0400
IF, you believe them....making this number look small is a way to keep faith in their payment systems up. Creative accounting isn't new, and especially when they're the beneficiary of it. With card companies charging rates that border on usery, they can hide a LOT!
At 11:55 9/27/2006, you wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/technology/circuits/27lost.htm (reg. req.) [... ] Regardless of the data breach, a rise in financial fraud has not surfaced. Visa and MasterCard report that about 2 percent of the card accounts lost or stolen in the last 18 months have been used to make fraudulent purchases. That is within the range of the 1.5 percent and 4 percent of consumers who reported being victims of financial fraud or identity theft, surveys say. Card companies say that fraud losses in 2005 over all were about 6 cents per $100 for merchandise bought on credit, a low level that has varied little in the last few years. (Numbers were much higher years ago; for example, in 1992, losses accounted for nearly 16 cents per $100 for merchandise bought on credit.) "The amount of fraud from these data breaches is remarkably small," said Chris Thom, the chief risk officer for MasterCard. [... ] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/datalossTracking more than 136 million compromised records in 375 incidents over 6 years.-- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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