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Alert for Visa card security
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:43:35 +0000 (UTC)
Courtesy InfoSecNews (http://www.infosecnews.org/) http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,22066995-5007221,00.html By DAVID KILLICK July 13, 2007 HUNDREDS of Tasmanian Visa card holders have been told to cut up their cards after a security breach in Sweden. Computer tapes containing card holders' details nationwide were among items in a car stolen from a Swedish data processing company in May. Many Australian financial institutions are affected, but only some are notifying customers. Islandstate Credit Union has written to card holders this week warning them to cancel cards and to report unauthorised transactions. "Your islandstate Visa card details may have been compromised on or after May 25, 2007, due to a possible data breach in Sweden," it says. "As a precaution your Visa card needs to be cancelled and a new card issued." Islandstate credit union spokeswoman Marsha Cadman said fewer than 5 per cent of the credit union's 80,000 customers were affected. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 213 million compromised records in 720 incidents over 7 years.
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