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Bank of America/VISA breach?
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 10:13:48 -0400 (EDT)
A question posed by a member of another mailing list, forwarded with permission. All responses will be forwarded to the author: ____________________________________ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 18:08:02 -0400 A friend of mine just had his Bank of America Visa debit card cancelled because BOA said that VISA just informed them that there was a "massive compromise" of Visa debit cards. Anyone know what's up? Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:15:56 -0400 (EDT) My friend got a call from BOA saying that there has been a "massive" compromise of Visa debit cards and his card might be affected. As a precaution, BOA is cancelling his old card and mailing him a new one. But there is an interesting twist. BOA wouldn't be cancelling the card for another hour to give my friend time to make one last withdrawl. He rushed over to his local ATM, but he tried to take out too much money when he went over his daily limit. When he tried a second withdrawl at lower amount, but the ATM said his card was cancelled. _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 142 million compromised records in 296 incidents over 6 years.
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