Visa Card Compromise Notification: Urgent Security Alert Issued

A computer hacker is lurking in cyberspace, targeting Visa credit- and debit-card holders. Until Wednesday, Richard Sieberg had owned a Visa card for three years without any security problems. 'Gardiner Savings Institution called me and said that my Visa had been . . . A computer hacker is lurking in cyberspace, targeting Visa credit- and debit-card holders. Until Wednesday, Richard Sieberg had owned a Visa card for three years without any security problems. 'Gardiner Savings Institution called me and said that my Visa had been hacked into,' Sieberg said. 'They said no money had been stolen, but I should close out the account and reopen another with a different number.' Sieberg, a full-time firefighter in Gardiner, will now wait two weeks until he receives a new card.

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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