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Mastercard Breach Update

06/21/2005 | Filed under: eBusiness — site admin @ 5:33 am

When MasterCard went public last week with news that a security breach exposed more than 40 million cards to fraud, customers weren’t the only ones interested. Phishers picked up on it, too, and quickly launched a campaign to piggyback on the blunder.

Opportunists have jumped in to try and cash in on the credit card debacle that we all know about now…It makes you wonder what you have to do to try and keep your information safe thes days.

This iTnews story explains more…

The crude email which was spotted by US based Secure Computing sports several clues that its a phish, including the from address, which is Master Bank rather than MasterCard International.