http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/german_credit_card_leak/ By John Leyden The Register 16th December 2008 Editors of the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper were stunned to receive a box containing the microfilmed details of tens of thousands of credit card holders last week. The anonymously-dispatched microfilm included customer details including names, address, credit card numbers and payment records. A few PIN notification letters were included within the parcel received by Frankfurter Rundschau but, contrary to early reports, PINs were not included on the microfilm received by the paper. The data came from Landesbank Berlin, Germany's biggest issuer of credit cards, and referred to cards held with ADAC (a German motoring organisation), Amazon Visa and XBox Classic credit cards, among others. Also included in the package was a bill from IT service firm Atos Worldline addressed to Landesbank. Atos charged Landesbank .71,400 ($98,000) for data processing services. Information in the package dated from last August. [...] _______________________________________________ Help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Tue Dec 16 2008 - 22:16:04 PST
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