HSBC Turkey Confirms Card Breach

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/hsbc-turkey-confirms-card-breach-a-7558

By Jeffrey Roman
Bank Info Security
November 12, 2014

HSBC Turkey confirms that a recent cyber-attack exposed payment card 
information for 2.7 million customers.

The bank is a subsidiary of London-based HSBC Group, which has operations 
worldwide in 74 countries and territories.

Information compromised in the breach includes debit and credit cardholder 
names, account numbers and expiration dates. The bank says that, so far, 
it has not seen any evidence of fraud or other suspicious activity arising 
from the incident.

HSBC Turkey detected the attack in the past week through its internal 
security controls, according to an FAQ. The attack was limited to Turkey, 
and all card operations have been restored to normal functioning, the bank 
says. No other details about the nature of the incident were revealed.

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