[Dataloss] VISA / 1ST BANK

Joshua Fritsch lucid at unixgeeks.org
Thu Oct 19 07:18:36 EDT 2006


> We have been notified by Visa U.S.A. that a listing of valid Visa card
> numbers has been obtained by an unauthorized person or persons who gained
> access to a merchant card processor's transaction database. For privacy
> reasons, Visa cannot disclose the name of the processor.

For PRIVACY reasons?!  So the privacy of a business that failed to secure 
the data of it's customers cannot be disclosed, thus preventing said 
customers from avoiding that business in the future.  There's gotta be a 
lawsuit in there somewhere...

-J


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