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Citibank cards pulled after network breach (fwd)
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 15:50:18 -0500 (EST)
Forwarded from ISN. Follow-up to: http://attrition.org/pipermail/dataloss/2006-March/000138.html http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/030706-citibank-network-breach.html By Robert McMillan IDG News Service 03/07/06 Citigroup is reissuing MasterCard credit and debit cards used in the U.K., Russia and Canada, saying they may have become compromised following an unspecified breach of its network. "Last year, Citibank and our customers were the victims of a third-party business' information breach," the company said Wednesday in a statement. "In mid-February, we detected several hundred fraudulent cash withdrawals in three countries. We are currently reissuing cards, as appropriate, to affected customers." In an earlier statement, published in media outlets, Citigroup said that the accounts may have been compromised in "previous retailer breaches in the U.S.," and that the company was aware of fraudulent ATM cash withdrawals being made in the U.K., Russia, and Canada. The company did not say how many cards were affected by these breaches. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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