An alleged Saudi hacker posted credit card information for approxiamanetly 400,000 Israeli users this week. The catch was that only 14,000 were valid.
From Reuters:
Computer hackers published details of thousands of active Israeli credit cards after breaking into Israeli websites, the chief executive of Israel’s largest card company said Tuesday.
Dov Kotler, CEO of Isracard, a unit of Bank Hapoalim, said in a statement that a file containing 400,000 Israeli credit card numbers had appeared on the Internet but the company found that most were incorrect or invalid.
So, of the 400,000 accounts a smattering are valid. The upside being that it all likelihood the bank had enough time to lock the accounts before damage could be done.
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