Visa Confirmed the Information Massive Stolen-News From GlobeBill
Online, April 26, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Credit card account information may have suffered "massive" stolen, involving credit card users of MasterCard, Visa and other International organizations, institutions of large card-issuing bank and several major credit card service companies. "About 1.5 million accounts were affected after the entire investigation. Relevant figure will be higher, but not too much. We can be sure that 95% ~ 97% of the counts are in the United States. "The Visa global Enterprise risk Officer Ellen Richey responded on April 17th in Beijing.
March 30, Atlanta, United States credit card payment services provider said the company's credit card data may be invaded in early March. The company has on the matter real-time circulate a notice to the law enforcement agencies, and now coordinated by the Federal Secret Service investigation.
Visa and MasterCard issued a circular to all the banks and card issuers on this incident to alert card issuers to closely monitor the account situation, and it will take measures to ensure data security. According to reports, the affected bank analysis of transaction data and track customer purchase history, account leak has been going on for a month, from January 21 to February 25.
"The attackers use advanced tools and encryption on their own after they enter the system, so people cannot see that they are inside. We believe that encryption is a means of self-protection before and did not expect criminals to take advantage of this. " Ellen Richey said "the hacker attacks very smart, but compared with credit card stolen case in 2005, this time we are doing better. "
With the continuous expansion of the pay solution, face-to-face payments, mobile payments, the innovation of e-commerce payment, the social network payment and other payment methods, how to eliminate loopholes, provide new tools and services, ensure the safety of consumers and businesses pay to build consumers anytime are always top concern of financers. Risk and safety control have been regarded as their major work. To solve this problem, some third party payment like PayPal, quick money and GlobeBill have all establish their own strict risk control and dedicate to provide customers with best services.
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