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UAE network intrusions in Feb and Aug yield credit card fraud - victims include US embassy employees
From: "Chris Walsh" <chris () cwalsh org>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:53:34 -0500
Hackers break into UAE credit network to fund US purchases Hugh Naylor Last Updated: September 04. 2008 11:34PM UAE / September 4. 2008 7:34PM GMT Abu Dhabi // An international investigation is under way to find hackers believed to have stolen information from financial servers in the UAE to make fraudulent credit and debit card purchases in the US. The scheme came to light after a number of employees at the US Embassy – and a handful of other US citizens – had unauthorised purchases show up on their credit and debit cards in recent months, prompting the embassy to issue a warning on its website. "To date, all of the reported fraudulent charges have been made from the United States," the message said. "We are aware of no fraudulent transactions originating in the UAE." MasterCard is co-operating with law enforcement officials and banks to investigate the issue, Chris Monteiro, the head of the company's worldwide communications, wrote in an e-mail. Visa, when contacted, did not respond to questions or comment on the case. However the manager of an anti-fraud division at a credit union in North Carolina, in the US, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Visa had warned that there had been "a network intrusion" in the UAE between February and August. Visa told her that the intrusion had happened "at the processor level", which she said suggested that computer hackers had penetrated the electronic records of organisations that acted as middlemen between merchants and credit card companies such as Visa and MasterCard. [...] Full article is at http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080904/NATIONAL/726459427/1010&profile=1010 The embassy website message appears to be https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=89435 _______________________________________________ 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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