Scope of credit card security breach expands
‘Discover Financial Services Inc. today joined Mastercard International and Visa U.S.A. Inc. in confirming that some of its card holders were also affected by a security problem involving a point-of-sale (POS) system at retailer Polo Ralph Lauren Corp.
A spokeswoman from Discover said that the company has been informing affected card holders of the problem but declined to say how many cards are involved or how long the company has been sending out the letters.
“It was an incident that impacted the credit card industry as a whole,” said Discover spokeswoman Jennifer Kang. “We have taken appropriate steps to ensure that card members are safe” from any portential fraud, she said.
The security breach came to light earlier this week when HSBC Bank PLC started sending out letters warning 180,000 of its credit card holders of potential ID thefts.
Visa and MasterCard both confirmed yesterday that they had been notified of the breach and had in turn notified several banks and credit card companies of the potential data compromise. They declined to say how many companies have been notified.’
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