[ anon7994 @ 18.02.2003. 20:44 ] @
Ukoliko ste koristili vase kartice u SAD proverite vase racune, ili kontaktirajte banku izdavaoca.

Visa, MasterCard say 5.6 million accounts were affected by security breach.

NEW YORK - The hacker who breached a security system to get into credit card information had access to about 5.6 million Visa and MasterCard accounts, far more than originally announced, the two card associations announced Tuesday.

Visa and MasterCard said Monday the hacker could look at as many as 2.2 million accounts after breaching the security system of a company that processes credit card transactions on behalf of merchants. Both credit card issuers declined to name the company whose security was hacked.

None of the original set of compromised Visa cards had been used fraudulently, Visa spokesman John Abrams said Monday. A MasterCard spokeswoman could not say whether any of their cards had been used fraudulently.

The affected accounts make up almost 1 percent of the 574 million Visa and MasterCard accounts in the United States. Spokesmen for the two companies said Monday they promptly notified the banks that issued the affected cards.

Both card companies have zero-liability policies, which protects the card holder from responsibility for any unauthorized or fraudulent charges.

Citizens Bank, a financial institution serving the Northeast, shut down the accounts of 8,800 customers whose card numbers had been accessed after being notified by MasterCard last Friday, bank spokeswoman Pamela Crawley said Monday. All of those accounts were safe, she said.

The FBI is aiding in the investigation.
[ broker @ 18.02.2003. 22:16 ] @
Nikako mi nije jasno zasto ne postoji zabrana da se brojevi kartica pamte duze nego sto je potrebno da se izvrsi konkretna naplata.
[ Gojko Vujovic @ 19.02.2003. 14:00 ] @
Ja mislim da čak postoji zakon koji kaže da sve podatke MORAŠ da pamtiš na neki duži period radi kontrole ili čega već..

Bad...
[ ventura @ 19.02.2003. 16:48 ] @
Da. Sve kartice moraju da se cuvaju MINIMUM 3 godine, tako propisuje Visa & MasterCard, a preporucuju da se cuvaju 5 godina, nakon cega sve informacije treba da se uniste... To je zbog raznoraznih inspekcija, kao i za slucajeve resavanaj fraud-a...
[ Ivan Dimkovic @ 19.02.2003. 17:12 ] @
Brojevi kartica treba da se pamte u sistemu koji vrsi autorizaciju (od strane banke ili vize/mc-a), a ne na racunarima koji su povezani na javni internet ili merchant serverima.