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Updated: 2005-06-20 10:35
 
Up to 40m credit cards 'hacked' 

万事达卡国际组织日前公开宣布,储存有大约4000万美国信用卡客户信息的电脑系统遭到一名黑客入侵,被盗账号信息资料可能被用于金融欺诈活动。不过,最新消息说,可能只有6.8万信用卡客户面临“替陌生人买单”的风险。

 

Up to 40m credit cards 'hacked'
All brands of cards could be affected

A computer hacker may have broken into more than 40 million credit card accounts, US company officials say.

MasterCard International said the breach was traced to a company in Atlanta which processes transactions for banks and merchants.

All brands of credit cards could be affected, it warned.

The company, CardSystems Solutions, said it identified the breach last month and immediately contacted the FBI, which was investigating.

MasterCard announced the breach in a news release on Friday, saying security "vulnerabilities" had allowed an unauthorised individual to infiltrate the network of CardSystems and access the cardholder data.

It said 14 million of its customers may have been exposed to fraud. Another 22 million were Visa cards, said a spokeswoman for the Visa company.

MasterCard spokeswoman Sharon Gamsin told the Associated Press news agency the data - names, banks and account numbers - could be used to steal funds, but not identities. The company was notifying banks that issue MasterCards.

In its own press release, CardSystems Solutions said it had identified a "potential security incident" on 22 May and contacted the FBI a day later.

The company said it was installing extra security procedures.

(BBC)

 

Vocabulary:
 

hacker: a programmer who breaks into computer systems in order to steal or change or destroy information as a form of cyber-terrorism(电脑黑客)

infiltrate: enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members(渗透)

 

 

 
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