Lost Cause
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Holy shit! I virtually always use the internet for all my purchases! This will suck, hope they catch the bastards.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating a recent computer hacking incident in which as many as eight million credit card numbers may have been stolen from a company that processes transactions, industry representatives and investigators said on Wednesday.
In what is believed to be the biggest credit card hacking incident so far, Omaha-based Data Processors International, which processes transactions involving Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Financial Services for merchants, said in a statement that it had "recently experienced a system intrusion by an unauthorized outside party."
"We are aware of the matter and looking into it," said FBI spokesman Paul Bresson, who said he could not comment further on the pending investigation.
The credit card issuing agencies said there had been no evidence that the numbers had been fraudulently used and cited "zero-liability" policies under which consumers would be protected in the case of fraud.
A MasterCard spokeswoman put the total number of credit cards exposed at around 8 million.
When news of the breach first became public on Monday, Visa and MasterCard pegged the number of credit cards exposed at 3.4 million and 2.2 million, respectively.
American Express said their number was "significantly less" than those figures, and Discover declined to give a number.
MasterCard has said it began notifying its members of the situation.
Paller and David Robertson, publisher of The Nilson Report, a credit card industry trade journal in Oxnard, California, said they believed the case was the biggest theft of credit card numbers in history.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The FBI is investigating a recent computer hacking incident in which as many as eight million credit card numbers may have been stolen from a company that processes transactions, industry representatives and investigators said on Wednesday.
In what is believed to be the biggest credit card hacking incident so far, Omaha-based Data Processors International, which processes transactions involving Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Financial Services for merchants, said in a statement that it had "recently experienced a system intrusion by an unauthorized outside party."
"We are aware of the matter and looking into it," said FBI spokesman Paul Bresson, who said he could not comment further on the pending investigation.
The credit card issuing agencies said there had been no evidence that the numbers had been fraudulently used and cited "zero-liability" policies under which consumers would be protected in the case of fraud.
A MasterCard spokeswoman put the total number of credit cards exposed at around 8 million.
When news of the breach first became public on Monday, Visa and MasterCard pegged the number of credit cards exposed at 3.4 million and 2.2 million, respectively.
American Express said their number was "significantly less" than those figures, and Discover declined to give a number.
MasterCard has said it began notifying its members of the situation.
Paller and David Robertson, publisher of The Nilson Report, a credit card industry trade journal in Oxnard, California, said they believed the case was the biggest theft of credit card numbers in history.
