Details of 240,000 credit cards publicly exposed

outrageous security breach - offline!

[tedster]

This one is pretty outrageous to me. Over 240,000 credit card subscribers had their information publicly exposed when paper printouts of the information were "recycled" as wrappers for newspaper bundles. The company involved is none other than the Boston Globe -- owned by the New York Times. As of this morning, the reports of fraudulent charges were rolling in.

Having been in physical world retail for 20 years, I've often said that offline credit card security is a total nightmare. And it is.

Boston.com article [boston.com]

[sem4u]

It is outrageous! I can hardly believe that something like this has happened! There are going to be a lot of very unhappy people...

[AWildman]

Hmmm...I wonder how many subscribers will cancel their subscriptions?

[Liane]

We regret the disruption and inconvenience that this incident may cause."

A little understated don't ya think? Inconvenience? Disruption?

Doesn't this sort of thing fall under breach of contract in regards to privacy policies?

[balam]

I know I'm late for the party, but I hope I'm worth a chuckle...

So, to find out if you are one of the affected subscribers, you are directed to visit a URL that ends .com/cclookup.

In what is probably a testament to how much pr0n I'm checking out, at first glance I could have sworn the URL ended .com/cockup.

;)