"Hardly a week goes by without startling new examples of breaches of
> sensitive personal data, reminding us how important it is to pass a
> comprehensive identity theft prevention bill in Congress quickly,"
> said Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y.
Startling? I am not even surprised by junk like this anymore.
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: My thanks to Lisa for rounding up this
> item. So what do we do now? Discontinue any/all shopping on the
> web where Card Systems is the processor? What information _is_ safe
> to give over the net any longer? Any at all? PAT]
???
Who said anything about the Internet? This particular breach would affect much more than just Internet transactions. This is apparently a backend system that was breached. Non-Internet transactions could also have been exposed.
And there's no way to avoid Card Systems, because we don't do business with them directly, and as far as I know, neither do the merchants. They deal with the card issuers.
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