Our friends from Sophos Labs are reporting that Visa is investigating a potential security breach that may have compromised payment cards of Eastern Europeans.
Although Visa hasn’t disclosed which countries were hit, the Romanian state-owned CEC Bank has blocked and reissued 17,000 cards on suspicion that they had been compromised.
Visa Europe issued a statement however that it has been looking into data security breach at a (Eastern) European processor and an investigation is underway and that they are working closely with their member banks to ensure cardholders are protected.
The full story can be found at Sophos.
(Source:Sophos)
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