Global Payments Breach Window Expands
Summary: Visa and MasterCard told card-issuing banks that the breach at processor Global Payments dates back to at least June 2011, pushing the exposure window back through seven updates from an initial Jan. 21 to Feb. 25, 2012 range. Global Payments CEO Paul Garcia said the company discovered the breach internally on March 8 and alerted the card associations the next day, while the company has said fewer than 1.5 million card numbers may have been stolen.
What's compelling: The Wall Street Journal reported sources saying at least 7 million card accounts are now considered potentially vulnerable, against Global Payments' figure of under 1.5 million - and the window kept expanding with each of the card networks' alerts.
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