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Old 04-22-2006, 04:07 PM  
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Any talk or notice of the debit fraud?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/techno...i-business-hed


Excerpt:

From Citibank to SunTrust, credit unions to community banks, America's financial institutions are scrambling to deal with the biggest cyber-heist of customer debit-card numbers to date.

The huge computer-hacking incident, which took place more than a month ago, has led to potentially millions of dollars in theft by a global ring of hackers using the stolen debit information and personal-identification numbers, industry experts said this week.

In recent weeks, the nation's banks have quietly tried to extinguish the problem by closing hundreds of thousands of debit-card accounts and providing customers new cards, account numbers and PINs, industry officials said.

Exact figures are unknown -- some banks have reported numbers; others have not. It is thought that at least 350,000 accounts across the country were defrauded, involving more than $10 million in losses, according to some experts.

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Anybody thinking sites will eventually be hit by these?
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