Saturday, July 17, 2010

Credit Card Hackers: How to Hack Credit Cards

When you go on vacation, you often want to leave behind any of the usual responsibilities at least for the duration of your vacation, but you may want to make a point of monitoring credit card activity while you’re on the road.

According to a release from lowcards.com, a favorite target of credit card hackers is hotels. It can often take months for these attacks to be discovered by hotels, or by the customers who are preoccupied with their vacation. So, credit card companies are pressuring merchants to adopt security standards and many already do.

Hotel Manager Sam Cannon….


Lowcards says 38-percent of all credit card hacking involved hotels, followed by the service industry and then retail. Hackers often make multiple small purchases to test card vulnerability before making large purchases.

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