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CardSystems Solutions was a credit card processing company. [1] In June 2005, the fact that 40 million credit cards had been stolen from CardSystems was discovered. [2] [3] This led to the discoveries that CardSystems had been keeping data in unencrypted form that it was contractually obligated to delete, and that its own network was vulnerable to infiltration by hackers.
By Michael Riley, Ben Elgin, Dune Lawrence, and Carol Matlack. The biggest retail hack in U.S. history wasn't particularly inventive, nor did it appear destined for success. In the days prior to ...
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Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker, computer criminal and police informer, [1] who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007, the biggest such fraud in history.
An estimated 85,000 credit card numbers and accounts were reported to have been stolen due to the hack. Bank officials say no personal customer bank information is available on that web-page. Investigations are being conducted by the FBI to trace down the incriminated hacker. [73]
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A point of sale card terminal. Point-of-sale malware (POS malware) is usually a type of malicious software that is used by cybercriminals to target point of sale (POS) and payment terminals with the intent to obtain credit card and debit card information, a card's track 1 or track 2 data and even the CVV code, by various man-in-the-middle attacks, that is the interception of the processing at ...
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