American Express issues alert after Anonymous dumps cardholder data

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http://www.csoonline.com/article/2304654/hacktivism/american-express-issues-alert-after-anonymous-dumps-cardholder-data.html

By Steve Ragan
CSO
June 2, 2014

In a letter to the California Attorney General's Office (OAG), American 
Express says that 76,608 people in the state will get a breach 
notification letter after some of their data was published by Anonymous 
Ukraine earlier this year.

In March, Anonymous Ukraine released more than 7 million records as part 
of a protest against the financial firms that helped "enslave" people the 
world over.

"After the USA showed its true face when she unilaterally decides which of 
the peoples to live independently and who under the yoke of the Federal 
Reserve, we decided to show the world who is behind the future collapse of 
the American banking system," Anonymous Ukraine supporters wrote at the 
time.

In all, they released 3,255,663 records from Visa; 1,778,749 records from 
MasterCard; 362,132 record from Discover; and 668,279 records from 
American Express. To date, only American Express has taken notification 
steps.

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