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Community Bank says new Visa cards in mail after hacking incident
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:53:11 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=54108 By Charlie Coon Stars and Stripes Mideast edition April 17, 2008 No Community Bank customers lost money when an Internet site they used to make purchases was attacked by a malicious computer program, prompting the overseas military bank to cancel 867 Visa banking cards last week. The affected customers have been mailed a new bank card, according to Thomas LaRock, a spokesman with the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, which oversees the Defense Department.s contract with Bank of America and its Community Bank subsidiary. "The bank has made, and continues to make, every effort to directly contact each of the 867 affected cardholders to inform them of the incident and notify them that a new card has been issued," LaRock wrote in an e-mailed response to Stars and Stripes. Most of the customers were Germany-based, according to DFAS. According to LaRock, the compromise apparently occurred when a malicious computer program targeted an online merchant with rapid-fire fake purchases. Once the purchases were authorized by the merchant, the perpetrator used the authorizations to trace back the information to the affected Visa cards. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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