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> <Quote>
> payment processor Heartland Payment Systems has potentially leaked up
> to 100 million credit and debit accounts into the black market. That
> number, if verified, would make this the largest data breach on
> record....
>
> [They think it was responsible for December surge in credit card
> fraud...]
>
> One of the systems in the payment processing chain had been infected
> with an unidentified bit of malware designed to track and report the
> magnetic information stored on the back of a credit card as that data
> was sent through the processing, err, process.
> </Quote>
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090120-malware-infestation-responsible-for-credit-card-data-breach.html
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> No word yet as far as I can tell which OS the malware was running on.
Maybe they use Wine on Linux on this mission-critical system. ;-)
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~~ Best of wishes
Roy S. Schestowitz | Play Othello: http://othellomaster.com
http://Schestowitz.com | Free as in Free Beer | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
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