Hacker sneaks into Visa credit-card site; might have compromised data
Details about the fraud are sketchy. Visa USA would release only this statement recently regarding the security compromise:
'As a result of a potential compromise of cardholder data stored on a processor server, Visa began immediately contacting some of its member institutions to notify them of the accounts possibly involved. This is being done as a precautionary measure so that these banks may take the appropriate steps to protect cardholders whose data may have been compromised.
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