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Banking start-up Monzo has sent out emails to half a million customers after its engineers caught a glimpse of the PIN numbers associated with their cards. The British banking service, which serves 2.5 million customers, recently secured a new round of… Continue reading Banking start-up exposes PINs for 500,000 customers on the verge of US launch
I have a nice, expensive, metal credit card with a chip but it’s from an older card. I’m wanting to rewrite the magnetic stripe and the chip to my new card. I know how to rewrite the magnetic stripe but what do I need to buy … Continue reading Cloning Credit/debit card chip
It started with an e-mail to a Capital One “responsible disclosure” email address early Wednesday, July 17, at 1:25 a.m. The note was short and cryptic. It simply said that “there appears to be some leaked s3 data of yours on someone’s github/gist.” T… Continue reading What’s in YOUR Wallet? A Tepid Defense of Capital One
Flaws that allow attackers to bypass the payment limits on Visa contactless cards have been discovered by researchers Leigh-Anne Galloway and Tim Yunusov at Positive Technologies. The attack was tested with five major UK banks, successfully bypassing t… Continue reading Flaws allow attackers to bypass payment limits on Visa contactless cards
Another week, another massive data breach.
Capital One, the fifth-largest U.S. credit-card issuer and banking institution, has recently suffered a data breach exposing the personal information of more than 100 million credit card applicants in the Uni… Continue reading Capital One Data Breach Affects 106 Million Customers; Hacker Arrested
I have a credit card saved to my primary Paypal account. To make a long story short, I needed to make another Paypal account that would not be connected to my original one.
I used a different computer, which had never been l… Continue reading How can Paypal know my card is being used in another account?
My debit card works just fine most places but some convenience stores that have Verifone multilane readers it is finicky in a very specific and repeatable way. It’s not just me either I see people in line having the same prob… Continue reading Why does my debit card act up at stores with Verifone readers?
Within minutes of my credit card being stolen by pickpockets, two large transactions were made by the thieves, apparently in a bar or cafe. My bank tells me that they were chip and pin transactions. I am sure to a high degree… Continue reading Can a criminal fake the use of a PIN in a chip and pin credit card transaction?
I have a website where people can make purchases.
The entire website is served with https.
On the first page, I accept user profile data and generate a random ID for my client and store that in my database.
I then pass th… Continue reading Using browser XMLHttpRequest to initiate credit card transaction with processor?
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Are VISA gift cards untraceable?
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I got hold of a prepaid credit card … Continue reading Are prepaid credit cards traceable? [duplicate]