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Hackers Gain Credit Card Details Through UK Retailer
News It was initially believed 2,000 credit card details had been stolen after silicon.com exclusively revealed that MasterCard advised card issuers to shut down the accounts of the cardholders affected and issue new cards after discovering the breach.
[May 2, 2006, 10:50]
TK Maxx Owner Criticised After Security Breach
News The parent company of TK Maxx, the high-street retailer, was breaking financial standards when its customers' credit card details were stolen just before Christmas, it has been claimed. TJX admitted two weeks ago that customers' credit card details...
[January 30, 2007, 13:32]
Consumers Warned Over Growing Internet Card Fraud
News Careless shoppers are contributing to an annual £110m fraud bill from criminals who use stolen credit card details to purchase high-value goods over the Internet and phone. The 'card-not-present' phenomenon has risen by a third over the last two...
[November 11, 2003, 14:45]
TK Maxx Customers Hit By Hacking Scare
News Customers' credit card details have been stolen from the company that owns the popular TK Maxx cut-price retail chain. In mid-December, the hacker broke in to TJX's storage network which contains customer credit card details, according to the company.
[January 18, 2007, 11:31]
Egghead.com Claims Hack Escape
News US e-tailer Egghead.com claimed Monday that no credit card details had been stolen in a hacking attack December. Credit card industry experts had feared that the details of over 3.5 million credit cards could have been stolen in the attack on...
[January 8, 2001, 16:54]
Flooz.com Collapse Linked To Massive Credit Card Fraud
News According to reports, the gang -- some of whom were based in Russia -- used stolen credit card details to buy the currency, which was called "flooz". The newspaper believes that the dot-com's fate was sealed once its credit card processor realised...
[August 28, 2001, 14:24]
Alleged TJX Hackers Charged
News The hacks compromised over 40 million people's credit- and debit-card details. They allegedly sold some of the credit- and debit-card numbers via the internet to other criminals in the US and Eastern Europe.
[August 6, 2008, 13:34]
Major Online Credit Card Theft Exposed
News But stolen credit card information can be used to commit fraud against unsuspecting Internet merchants, which in most cases, bear the cost of the crime, or for identity theft -- a practice where criminals use personal data to obtain new credit...
[March 17, 2000, 12:37]
Visa Cards Blocked After Details Stolen
News Visa has confirmed that the credit card details of "a number" of Visa customers in the US and Europe have been stolen from a US-based firm. Late last week 2,000 card holders in the Netherlands found their cards blocked.
[June 13, 2003, 13:57]
Biggest Ever Web Credit Card Theft?
News Sources in the credit card industry have told ZDNet US News that up to 3.7 million credit card numbers may have been stolen. US online mega-retailer Egghead.com admitted Friday it had been hacked, in what could be the Internet's largest ever credit...
[December 22, 2000, 14:29]
Compact Computer Credit Card Con Caught
News Tania Ventura, a 26-year-old cashier at Bloomingdale's department store, allegedly attached a makeshift credit card scanner to her Palm in order to capture the card details of hundreds of her customers.
[November 26, 1999, 14:41]
Australis Personal Finance
Downloads Cyclical Repayment Planner allows you to cycle money around your credit card accounts where it is allowed by the bank. Stores all private details in an encrypted database so that even if your computer is stolen your details are secure.
[January 12, 2008, 17:46]
Hackers Steal One Million Credit Cards
News According to the FBI, many of the victim Web sites were blackmailed by the hackers, who threatened to reveal details of their exploits and use stolen credit card details if a ransom was not paid. Computer hackers based in Eastern Europe have...
[March 9, 2001, 11:53]
Security Firm Exposes Massive Crimeware Server
News A Trojan horse command-and-control server discovered in June contained 50GB of stolen user account and financial details, including 9,000 bank and credit-card account credentials from around the world and 463,582 user account passwords, according...
[August 8, 2008, 15:44]
Hannafords Supermarket Loses Up To 4.2m Records
Blog A Hannaford's employee told ZDNet.co.uk on Tuesday that 2000 of the compromised customer credit and debit card details have been used in fraudulent transactions, and confirmed that it may have lost up to 4.2 million details.
[March 18, 2008, 17:16]
TK Maxx 'should Disclose Hacking Details'
News You always hear of breaches — 50,000 credit card numbers stolen, 100,000 security numbers. US discount retailer TJX, owner of UK retailer TK Maxx, revealed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday that at least 45.7 million payment card details had been...
[March 30, 2007, 16:45]
Banks Nearing Agreement On Web Security
Talkback Credit Card number, account number or details of the transaction etc, so there is no introduced risk of data loss. Credit and ATM cards are absolutely secure even if the Card, PIN, and password, are stolen without the knowledge of the victim.
[February 15, 2006, 4:56]
Credit Card Cookie Theft 'unlikely'
News In recent days, it's been reported that Novell CEO Eric Schmidt believes his credit card number was stolen using a cookie, but that is an "unlikely" possibility, according to Paul Fahn, cryptographic analyst for encryption technology provider...
[December 6, 1999, 9:32]
Fake PayPal Site Could Lead To Identity Theft
News Once there the victim is presented with a convincing version of the PayPal site with a list of fields including name, address and date of birth, social security number, driving licence number, mother's maiden name, credit card and bank account...
[July 9, 2003, 13:54]
Phishing Attacks Surge
News Phishing scams involve fraudsters setting up fake banking websites, then sending emails to try to lure people to visit the sites, where the unwitting enter their credit card and other banking details.
[November 7, 2006, 15:10]
