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Debit-card fraud underscores legal loopholes
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-03-20

Recent widespread debit-card fraud likely has roots in three major data leaks that occurred in the last six months, two of which have yet to be publicly disclosed by the companies involved.

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Debit-card fraud underscores legal loopholes 2006-03-23
Anonymous (1 replies)
In investigating several of this type incidents over the past couple years, an increasing number of companies are essentially causing the card issuers to be "holding the bag." That is, they culprit companies are just telling VISA and MasterCard to notify all of the cardholders and not giving any ad...

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Re: Debit-card fraud underscores legal loopholes 2007-11-28
Anonymous
Does anyone have any advice on how to deal this matter? this just happend to me the theives drained my checking an savings account and the bank refuses to give me my money back becaues they used the pin to take out the money ...

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Debit-card fraud underscores legal loopholes 2006-03-27
Anonymous
What reason in hell would a retailer have to keep account numbers of debit cards and their PIN's on file?!?

This totally removes any security associated with a debit card.

Seriously why would you give your PIN to anyone? The only time you should use you PIN is to enter it into an ATM or EFTPOS...

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Debit-card fraud underscores legal loopholes 2006-03-27
Anonymous
One thing makes no sense to be regarding notification when encrypted data is stolen WITH the key. The article states in that situatation notification is not needed, however; if the data is stolen along with the key the person that has both can unencrypt the data. Therefore, if both are stolen toge...

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