Global Payments: 1.5MM Cards ‘Exported’
Summary: Global Payments said in a Sunday statement that fewer than 1,500,000 card numbers may have been exported from a processing system confined to North America, and that Track 2 card data may have been stolen while cardholder names, addresses and Social Security numbers were not. A Visa and MasterCard alert had put the window of vulnerability at January 21 to February 25, 2012, while Global Payments said its own systems detected the intrusion in early March, and Visa removed the company from its list of compliant service providers over the weekend.
What you should know: The gap between the card networks' January-February window and Global Payments' early-March detection is the detail to sit with: the company self-reported the breach, yet the exposure ran for more than a month before anyone caught it, and 1.5 million card numbers were the count it could confirm had left the building.
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