[Dataloss] RI: Suspected merchant data breach spurs WashTrust to notify 1, 000 card-holders

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The Washington Trust Co. has notified about 1,000 customers that their 
debit and credit card accounts might have been compromised in a suspected 
security breach at an unidentified MasterCard merchant.

Washington Trust spokeswoman Elizabeth B. Eckel, senior vice president of 
marketing, said this morning that, although there has been no evidence of 
fraudulent activity, the bank's policy calls for the accounts to be closed 
and new cards to be issued.

That action was taken after Washington Trust, Rhode Island's largest 
independent bank, received an advisory from MasterCard saying the company 
was investigating a "suspected security breach of a U.S. e-commerce-based 
merchant's Web server which contained debit card data."

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