{"id":26186,"date":"2012-11-09T14:54:26","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T12:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=26186"},"modified":"2012-11-09T15:10:24","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T13:10:24","slug":"credit-card-details-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/26186\/credit-card-details-leaked\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit card details leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Private credit card and banking details have been leaked during a breach at a company which processes online transactions, the Payments Association of SA (Pasa<\/a>) said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Pasa CEO Walter Volker<\/a> said there was no need for “undue concern” by cardholders.<\/p>\n

“There are indications at this stage that only a limited number of card details have been accessed by outside organisations, and as a result limited fraud has been perpetrated,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

He said card-users needed to report suspicious account transactions to their banks.<\/p>\n

Pasa discovered the breach earlier in the week.<\/p>\n

The company which processed the online transactions “serves a number of large online merchants”, it said.<\/p>\n

“The card data emanating from these online transactions seems to have been stored in a manner which does not meet the stringent security standards expected by Pasa, the international card schemes and the banks,” Volker said.<\/p>\n

“Pasa has been working with the banks and the card schemes to implement immediate measures to block the potential exposure of the card data.<\/p>\n

“Should fraudulent transactions be perpetrated on any of these cards as a result of the data compromise, cardholders would not be exposed to any losses — as is the case under normal circumstances,” he said.<\/p>\n

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