Hackers Make Off With 1.5 Million Credit Card Accounts

Fox Van Allen, Tecca
Mon, 04/02/2012 - 9:53am

If you're one of the millions of Americans with a credit card , you'd better keep a watchful eye on your next billing statement. Global Payments, Inc. , the nation's seventh largest credit card processor, suffered a massive security breach , with thieves making off with the account information of millions of customers.According to Global Payments, the thieves exported the account data, meaning that they not only viewed the data, but made a copy of it as well.

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