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Some BofA Clients Find Debit Cards Cancelled
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:51:26 GMT
Via SFGate.com. [snip] Numerous Bank of America customers have had their debit cards canceled and have been blocked from accessing their accounts online after an unnamed company experienced what appears to be a major security breach. BofA is refusing to identify the company, saying in letters to customers this week only that the breach occurred "at a third-party location unrelated to Bank of America." This is unusual. Past data-security breaches involving financial institutions have centered on systems being compromised at either bank offices or those of affiliated firms. Michael Chee, a BofA spokesman, confirmed Wednesday that the breach in this latest case wasn't at a processing center used by the bank or any other affiliate. [snip] More here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/09/BUGHLH55SQ1.DTL - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Some BofA Clients Find Debit Cards Cancelled Fergie (Feb 09)
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- RE: Some BofA Clients Find Debit Cards Cancelled Todd Towles (Feb 09)
- Re: Some BofA Clients Find Debit Cards Cancelled Fergie (Feb 10)
- Re[2]: Some BofA Clients Find Debit Cards Cancelled Pierre Vandevenne (Feb 10)