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About two months ago, a Twitterer going by 0x2Taylor announced a sizeable data dump. More than 300,000 credit card records were uploaded to the file sharing service Mega; the data has since been removed from Mega, but not before it was widely downloaded by many interested parties. By some...

While banks and credit card issuers are slowly rolling out new debit and credit cards containing microchips intended to make them less susceptible to fraud, Home Depot says in a recently filed lawsuit that the two largest card networks have colluded with the banks to produce cards that are not...

There are a lot of purchases you can make with the information on the front of a credit card. But ID thieves who have the card number, name, and expiration date will still hit a speedbump if they have to enter that (usually 3-digit) security code on the back of a victim’s card. Notice that we...

Home Depot has yet to confirm that its United States stores were hit by massive theft of customer credit- and debit-cards, but evidence is increasing. Some security experts fear the rumored Home Depot data breach might be larger than Target's last year, which affected 40 million payment cards...