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2012 — Global Payments: Global Payments discovered a massive breach of…

2012 7.0M records affected Share on X

Data compromised

Personal information

Technical writeup

Global Payments discovered a massive breach of their systems in early March 2012.  Global Payments processes credit and debit cards for banks and merchants and a number of credit and debit cards issued to businesses were determined to be compromised.  The breach was discovered when Global Payments' security systems detected unusual activity.UPDATE (04/02/2012): Global Payments created a breach information website for consumers. Global Payments claimed that only a few of their North American serv

Root cause

CARD

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