Comments on: Anther data breach victim identified http://www.merchant911.org/blog/index.php/2009/12/30/anther-data-breach-victim-identified/ Comments on credit card fraud from the E-Commerce Merchant point of view by Tom Mahoney, Founder and Director of Merchant911.org Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:40:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: StrongBox http://www.merchant911.org/blog/index.php/2009/12/30/anther-data-breach-victim-identified/comment-page-1/#comment-2356 StrongBox Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:19:31 +0000 http://www.merchant911.org/blog/?p=450#comment-2356 Very nice post. 170 million cards is a very scary number. Albert Gonzalez is one of thousands criminal that actually got caught.It makes me wonder how many cards in the world are actually still 'private" and not stolen. Very nice post. 170 million cards is a very scary number. Albert Gonzalez is one of thousands criminal that actually got caught.It makes me wonder how many cards in the world are actually still ‘private” and not stolen.

]]> By: Tom http://www.merchant911.org/blog/index.php/2009/12/30/anther-data-breach-victim-identified/comment-page-1/#comment-2346 Tom Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:17:00 +0000 http://www.merchant911.org/blog/?p=450#comment-2346 Adrian, Certainly a good point and we can only know what we're told. Clearly if any of these entities were doing global sales and their databases were hacked, then it's more than US cards. But we do know that at least some of the breaches were ongoing at the POS and those would be US only. I do see breach reports from overseas now and then but I don't think they have the reporting requirements that we do so a lot of them are under the radar. Adrian,

Certainly a good point and we can only know what we’re told. Clearly if any of these entities were doing global sales and their databases were hacked, then it’s more than US cards. But we do know that at least some of the breaches were ongoing at the POS and those would be US only.

I do see breach reports from overseas now and then but I don’t think they have the reporting requirements that we do so a lot of them are under the radar.

]]> By: Adrian http://www.merchant911.org/blog/index.php/2009/12/30/anther-data-breach-victim-identified/comment-page-1/#comment-2345 Adrian Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:55:34 +0000 http://www.merchant911.org/blog/?p=450#comment-2345 What makes you think he targeted only US citizens? The internet is a global medium and the techniques Gonzalez used to hack into those systems should be just as effective outside of the US. Want to take a guess at how many cards he REALLY got hold of? What makes you think he targeted only US citizens? The internet is a global medium and the techniques Gonzalez used to hack into those systems should be just as effective outside of the US. Want to take a guess at how many cards he REALLY got hold of?

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