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  8000 Credit Cards' Details Compromised In Australian Bank Breach

  Posted: May 28th, 2011, 9:30am CEST by timothy

  Tags:  security  

  mask.of.sanity writes "Australia's largest bank, the Commonwealth Bank, has cancelled 8,000 credit cards after it detected a data breach at a merchant. Mastercard and Visa may issue penalties including fines to the acquiring bank under the payment industry's PCI-DSS compliance rules. News of breaches is uncommon in Australia because the nation does not have data breach disclosure laws."

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