Saudi hacker threatens to expose details of another million credit cards

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By Oded Yaron and Ophir Primat
Haaretz Daily Newspaper
06.01.12

The Saudi hacker who earlier this week exposed the details of an estimated 
15,000 Israeli credit cards yesterday posted 11,000 additional card 
numbers and threatened to release the details of one million stolen credit 
card numbers in all.

In a message posted by "0xOmar" from the Saudi hacking group Group-XP, the 
hacker claimed he had "hacked much more than you can imagine."

Israeli credit card companies said yesterday they have the new list of 
hacked numbers and are working to assess the situation. Company employees 
are briefing affected customers and canceling their cards. Company 
officials said only a few dozen new cards were in the latest list of 
numbers, and that they were canceled before any transactions were made.

According to Shai Blitzblau of Maglan Information Defense Technologies, 
initial checks by company experts indicated that the new file contains 
only a few hundred new credit card numbers, along with around 4,000 credit 
card numbers that were exposed in the past year.

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