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RBS Worldpay lose 1.5 million records

   2008-12-25

   Hi everyone,

   I was informed today that the payment service provider RBS Worldpay had
   released details of a breach of cardholder data. After a small amount of
   investigation I found that the breach had occurred in November and around
   1.5 million records were stolen.

   According to a press release on the RBS Worldpay site only 100 of these
   cards had been misused and they have begun taken steps towards protecting
   all of the cardholders with fraud protection etc. I will be interested to
   see how much press this breach gets, perhaps the cynic in me is taking the
   lead here but releasing this information at this time of year might just
   minimise the amount of brand damage inflicted upon RBS Worldpay.

   There aren’t many details available at the moment about how the data was
   stolen but as I know more I will post it here.

   Dave
   Categories : Data Loss   PCI DSS
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