The majority of debit cards and some credit cards have a contactless facility these days . This means that anyone in posession of the card can use it to pay for goods up to the value of €30 without a PIN. (More about Contactless Cards here). If you lose your debit card, or it is […]
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Fraud
Paddy Power Security Breach Affects 649,000 Customers
Paddy Power, the online bookmakers , are this week in the process of contacting 649,055 people who may be affected by a data breach that happened in 2010. They say that no financial information or customer passwords were compromised in the incident and that customers’ accounts are not at risk as a result. The full […]
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Ebay Hacked – Users Requested to Change Passwords
Auction site eBay is advising users to change their passwords after a cyber-attack compromised its systems. Ebay said a database had been hacked between late February and early March. The database included eBay customers’ name, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth. Whilst the passwords are encrypted – some hackers […]
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Card Fraud at Call Centres
The recent publicity surrounding the potential credit card fraud at the Local Property Tax call centre has prompted us to look into how common this type of fraud is. We sometimes hear about IT systems being hacked and credit card details being stolen – but how safe are your credit card details when paying over […]
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Potential Credit Card Fraud at Property Tax Call Centre
A member of staff working for the private compay Abtran who operate the Property Tax helpline – has been suspended because of possible theft of credit card details. The member of staff was not working in the section that dealt with payments – but had asked for credit card details from some callers. Revenue have […]
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