Tag archive: credit cards

According to the Washington Post, hacking activist group Anonymous has released 200 GB of data that was procured from security think tank Stratfor earlier this week. The data includes the user names, passwords and email addresses of over 850,000 Stratfor users in addition to 75,000 credit card numbers for premium users of the Stratfor service. The organization provides intelligence and analysis related to security related matters, both domestic… Read More

Announced within an official blog post at the main Salvation Army site, the charitable organization will accept donations via Square at popular red kettle locations across the United States. The Salvation Army will roll out an initial test of the digital contributions in Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco and New York City. In order to take payments from shoppers walking past the locations, Sprint Nextel has generously donated ten Android… Read More

The idea of a mobile wallet has been touted as the next big thing for years now, and despite pioneering trials from the likes of Nokia (that, among other things, enabled users to pay for vending machine items via text messages), the technology hasn't changed the lives of many consumers. That may be changing, as companies like Visa and MasterCard start to put their muscle behind mobile payment technologies, and firms like Google begin… Read More

In May, Google announced Google Wallet, its innovative new smartphone payments platform. (Broad details about the announcement can be found here.) But how will you, a smartphone owner, actually use this technology? To help answer that question, we've broken down of how all of this works. What it does Using an embedded NFC (near-field communications) chip, Google Wallet is an open platform (and an Android app) that will allow you to use… Read More

Hacker group Anonymous denies Sony's accusations that it waged the massive data breach of the PlayStation Network in an attempt to steal members' credit card data. Instead, says self-appointed Anonymous spokesman Barrett Brown, any evidence that Anonymous was involved is the work of its enemies trying to frame the infamous group. “Whoever broke into Sony's servers to steal the credit card info and left a document blaming… Read More

Eric Schmidt is hoping you'll swipe your phone instead of your credit card when you reach the checkout counter. At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, the Google CEO held up an unidentified new Android phone (speculated to be the Nexus Two) which has a near-field communications chip built into it, reports CNET. Schmidt believes that smartphones embedded with these chips could eventually replace standard credit cards. “This could… Read More

The BBC has reported that clothing retailer Cotton Traders was the victim of a hacking attack at the beginning of the year, when the credit card details and addresses of 38,000 customers were stolen. Although the company has admitted the attack happened, it has refused to confirm its size. But it did claim that it contacted Barclaycard immediately after the event, and most of the cards concerned were stopped back in January and Apacs, the… Read More