The hack into Visa and MasterCard payment processor Global Payments turns out to have been massive, exposing 1.5 million customers' information (including account numbers) and costing the third-party contractor its spot on Visa's registry of secure providers.
If you have a Visa or MasterCard, it's time to start paying more attention to those statements: A payment processor both companies use has had some kind of security breach, and while the details are still murky, these things don't tend to end well.
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