WESTERN Union Holdings Inc.'s Web site was out of commission for five days last week after a malicious hacker broke into the site and apparently copied the credit-card or debit-card numbers of about 15,700 Western Union customers. Peter Ziverts, a . . . . WESTERN Union Holdings Inc.'s Web site was out of commission for five days last week after a malicious hacker broke into the site and apparently copied the credit-card or debit-card numbers of about 15,700 Western Union customers. Peter Ziverts, a spokesman at WesternUnion.com in Englewood, Colo., said getting the Web site back online took two days longer than company officials originally expected after discovering the security breach during a scheduled audit of site performance on Sept. 8. The link for this article located at AntiOnline is no longer available. . The platform of MoneyGram experienced a shutdown lasting a week following a security incident, compromising the data of 20,300 clients' account details.. Western Union Breach, Cybersecurity Audit, Identity Theft Prevention. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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