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Information Technology News Hackers steal AT&T customers credit card details
Information Technology News Hackers steal AT&T customers credit card details | Hackers steal AT&T customers credit card details |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 30 August 2006 | |
  
The customers, who had shopped for DSL equipment used for broadband internet access, will be notified and protected with the help of credit monitoring services paid for by AT&T, according to the telecommunications company. In addition, AT&T has said it will work with law enforcement agencies to track down the hackers. The question of whether internet merchants should keep customer details, in particular credit card data, stored in online servers has been a bone of contention for a number of years. According to security experts, nearly all credit card data thefts to date have occurred as the result of successful hacks into the online data repositories of merchants and credit card processors. One of the most high profile thefts occurred in June 2005 when details of an estimated 40 million cards was stolen from CardSystems Solutions, a third-party processor of payment data for Mastercard and Visa. {moscomment} |
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