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Originally posted by FATPad
When the card database was hacked and 13 million numbers were compromised. MC refused to provide anyone with the #'s so sales involving those cards could be refused.
You can't say you're going to allow chargebacks for stolen cards, and refuse to supply a list of known cards that could be compromised.
I'll go look through the whole thing again. Mastercard spies are such pains. :P
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Well, that's a good point.
But remember that the hacked database wasn't discovered until February of 2003. (p.13)
By then, Epoch had completely screwed up their relationship with Mastercard after falling out of compliance for a good part of 2001-2002.
It's not crazy to assume that they wouldn't want to hand over a database of stolen credit cards to a company that had repeatedly violated their rules in the past.
Maybe it was a matter of trust ... or lack thereof.