credit card hacks
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Report: Stolen Equifax Data Hasn’t Been Sold Online, Raising More Questions Than Answers
In 2017, consumer credit reporting agency Equifax suffered one of the largest data breaches in history, exposing extensive personal information on nearly countless thousands of additional cases, credit-card numbers and scans of driver’s licenses, social security cards, and other identity documents). Congressional investigators later found the incident was the result of massive incompetence on Equifax’s…
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The Clever Chunks Of Code That Steal Millions Of Credit Card Numbers
The United States is almost ready to join the rest of the world in the chip-and-pin credit card future. But in the meantime hackers have been stealing numbers left and right. Wired took a deep dive into the software that lets it happen, and the process is both clever and simple.