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Germany in 'credit card recall'


From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:21:04 +0000 (UTC)


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8365828.stm

More than 100,000 German credit cards are being replaced after fears that 
personal data has been stolen, German press reports say.

The reports say that the Volks- and Raiffeisenbank group alone is 
recalling 60,000 cards.

Fraudsters are thought to have stolen data on German customers from a 
service provider in Spain. There have been no actual reports of fraud.

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