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MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

January 22, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, akam.ne, akam.net, Akamai, awsdns-06.ne, az.mastercard.com, Azure, bugcrowd, CloudFlare, Google, how to break into security, mastercard, philippe caturegli, seralys

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 15:24:41 +0000

The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name. The misconfiguration persisted for nearly five years until a security researcher spent $300 to register the domain and prevent it from being grabbed by cybercriminals.

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Wawa Breach May Have Compromised More Than 30 Million Payment Cards

January 28, 2020 0 Comments bebe stores breach, buca di beppo breach, Data Breaches, gemini advisory, hilton hotels breach, Joker's stash, krystal breach, mastercard, mcalister's deli breach, moe's breach, scholtzsky's breach, sonic breach, The Coming Storm, visa, wawa breach

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 20:12:16 +0000

In late December 2019, fuel and convenience store chain Wawa Inc. said a nine-month-long breach of its payment card processing systems may have led to the theft of card data from customers who visited any of its 850 locations nationwide. Now, fraud experts say the first batch of card data stolen from Wawa customers is being sold at one of the underground’s most popular crime shops, which claims to have 30 million records to peddle from a new nationwide breach.

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Takeaways from the $566M BriansClub Breach

October 29, 2019 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, andrei barysevich, briansclub breach, Data Breaches, gemini advisory, mastercard, Ne'er-Do-Well News, visa

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:47:58 +0000

Reporting on the exposure of some 26 million stolen credit cards leaked from a top underground cybercrime store highlighted some persistent and hard truths. Most notably, that the world’s largest financial institutions tend to have a much better idea of which merchants and bank cards have been breached than do the thousands of smaller banks and credit unions across the United States. Also, a great deal of cybercrime seems to be perpetrated by a relatively small number of people.

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Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency loses all but one payment company

October 15, 2019 0 Comments cryptocurrency, ebay, facebook, financial stability board, FSB, g20, g7, global stablecoin, imf, international monetary fund, Law & order, libra, libra association, mastercard, Paypal, stablecoin, stablecoins, visa

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:00:01 +0000

Gone: Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, eBay, Stripe, Mercado Pago. Of six payments firms first involved in Libra, just one, PayU, remains.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/7AWGkl-XHVQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>