About 1, 000 West Shore Bank customers notified debit cards compromised

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Roughly 1,000 West Shore Bank customers have been notified this week
that their debit card number may have been compromised after the bank
was notified of the issue by Master Card.

“Master Card said there was a security break at a common
point-of-purchase provider… sometime this summer,” said West Shore
Bank’s Jeremy Holmes. “It wasn’t our system — our system wasn’t
compromised. It was a third party that the customers went to. The
information was accessed in their system.”

Master Card would not comment on the specific incident, citing the
ongoing investigation.

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Holmes didn’t know which company had the security break.

“We weren’t provided with a lot of information,” he said. “What we
know is that we were given a listing of debit card numbers that were
potentially compromised.”

When asked if the card issue was tied to Wesco’s announcement of a
security breach, Holmes said he was only notified what happened and
the timeframe of the incident, not of the company that had the
problem.

“(Master Card) doesn’t tell us where only that it was somewhere in the
US,” Holmes said. “But I imagine that it could be (a major merchant in
the area).”

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