Article: Debt Consolidation ? How To Protect Your Credit Accounts From Theft
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Debt Consolidation ? How To Protect Your Credit Accounts From Theft
Last week, a security exploit at CardSystems Solutions, Inc, a credit card processor, may have allowed thieves to obtain as many as 40 million credit card numbers from unsuspecting victims. The theft was brought about though a virus introduced into the CardSystems that allowed external hackers to obtain access to the account information. Adding to the problem was the fact that CardSystems wasn?t supposed to have the account information at all. It appears that CardSystems ?inappropriately? held onto the information after clearing the credit card transactions. At that point, the account information should have been deleted. CardSystems held onto the account information for supposed ?research purposes.? Fortunately for those involved, the compromised information only included account numbers ...
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