Hackers steal millions of credit card data.

Data from one of the largest service provider for credit card payments in the U.S.: Computer hackers gained access to the databases of a U.S. company that each month some 100 million payment settles. Experts speak of the worst such case of all time.

 

Princeton - Experts estimate, according to U.S. media reports on Wednesday that many millions of customers could be affected. Some even believe that it may be the largest case of credit card abuse in the U.S. act.

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Credit cards: Probably the largest theft of card data in the U.S.

The Computerhackern succeeded, according to the concerned service provider Heartland Payment Systems, the card numbers, names and valid data. The extent and damage are not yet to quantify. The company works for Around 175,000 mainly small shops and restaurants in the United States.

The data on the magnetic stripes are actually encoded, but would need to be decrypted query short, so the service provider. At this point, the attacker picked the data. Heartland Payment Systems, according to its own figures from the world's leading credit card companies Visa and Mastercard on unusual transactions have been made aware.

In so far according to media reports largest known case of Data in the U.S. were two years ago about 45 million customers of the discounter TJX affected. In Germany last several scandals with comprehensive data about abuse at banks and Deutsche Telekom for attention.