The Newcastle, U.K., city council has admitted that personal data and payment card details of up to 54,000 local residents has been downloaded from an insecure server to an IP address outside the country.
The scope of the security breach disclosed this week by The TJX Companies Inc. is starting to make itself evident, with more than three dozen banks in Massachusetts alone now reporting that cards they issued have been compromised.
Visa Canada and the RCMP estimate that 200,000 Canadians have been targeted by phishing scams and that last year some 13,000 Canadians were the victims of identity theft, at a cost of $21.5 million.
Visa USA Inc. and Visa International Service Association have been sued by two technology companies who claim that the credit card companies stole their patented technology for authenticating credit card holders in online transactions.