So I've just opened up my mail to find a letter from ANZ with the heading "Account data security breach in the United States", informing me that there was a breach at a US-based bank's transaction processing centre that may have affected me if I'd used my credit card in the US or shopped at US-based merchants.

I can't remember buying anything from the US recently so I don't think I'm at risk, but pretty scary stuff. The letter goes on to say that there is a 'dedicated team' monitoring my account and that they'll contact me if anything weird shows up.

Apparently this affects both Visa and MasterCard.

stagrrr reckons this is old news, but its the first I've heard of it; anyone else gotten anything about it?

I haven't recieved any emails or letters from banks, but I use my Credit Card in the USA a fair bit - but heres some more info for you.

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/18/075256&tid=158&tid=172&tid=187&tid=218

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/20/2013205&tid=158&tid=198&tid=17

Yeah, i can fix it trog. Just post me the login details to your online banking and ill do the rest.

yeah trog it was announced early last week.... from memoty 75,000 australians are exposed

If I paste my credit card number can someone look up to see if its ok???!!!

Old news mate....

How was the RE trog ? I spy with my little eye.

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15669356%5E15316%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,15651689-14305,00.html

http://finance.news.com.au/story/0,10166,15682059-462,00.html

I dont care if they aren't linked right

Well, I guess I missed it during my exams, I'm outta touch!

Well you can blame the Indian call centers. And it happened last year sometime apparently.

meh, don't fear credit card fraud.
Your friend is "repudiation"

That is exactly right Hermi. It is unbelievable how many people don't understand repudiation on credit card transactions and blabber on about the evil of the net in regards to credit card purchases not even knowing that repudiation exists!!

Dysard lives!

On topic, yeah - people who are so afraid of using their credit cards obviously missed the reports from Visa and Mastercard that credit card fraud online is about the same as offline - so when you hand that waiter your card, watch him like a hawk.