Some MasterCard holders exposed to data theft

A bank tells 180,000 people who used their GM MasterCards at Polo Ralph Lauren that their data may have been stolen, a report says.

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[jeffhughes1]

Took long enough

I'm wondering why it's taken so long for this to be on the legislative hotbed. This has been happening for at least 5 years. It's either because it didn't make big news headlines, or companies didn't even know it was occuring.

I had a Citibank card that I had in my possession, but had NEVER been used, not once. But about 5 years ago a charge, converted from Russian rubles, appeared on the card, which I immediately had marked as fraudulent and closed.