Global Payments says 1.5M cards affected in data theft

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https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225738/Global_Payments_says_1.5M_cards_affected_in_data_theft

By John Ribeiro
IDG News Service
April 2, 2012

Payments processing services company Global Payments said late Sunday 
that information on as many as 1.5 million card numbers may have been 
"exported" as a result of an unauthorized access into its processing 
system.

Visa and MasterCard are alerting banks across the country about a recent 
major breach that could involve more than 10 million compromised card 
numbers, security news writer Brian Krebs wrote on his blog Friday.

Krebs did not name the payment processor. However later on Friday, 
Global Payments said the company determined in early March that card 
data may have been accessed.

The Atlanta company said Sunday it believes that the affected portion of 
its processing system is confined to North America, and that Track 2 
card data may have been stolen. The American Bankers Association 
developed the format for track 2 data on a magnetic card, which usually 
contains account number, expiry date of card, and sometimes 
discretionary data.

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