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SmartMetric Says an Alarming Number of at Least 60 Million Credit/Debit Cards Compromised in the USA Last Year - Business Wire

13-Nov-2018 06:07:00 AMNY-SMARTMETRIC-INC

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SmartMetric Says an Alarming Number of at Least 60 Million
Credit/Debit Cards Compromised in the USA Last Year

SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) – According to an analytic report just
released by Gemini Advisory* at least 60 million US credit/debit cards
were compromised last year:

“Based on the proprietary Gemini Advisory telemetry data collected from
various dark-web sources over several years, we have determined that in
the past 12 months at least 60 million US cards were compromised. Of
those, 75% or 45.8 million were CP records, likely compromised through
card-sniffing and point-of-sale (POS) breaches of businesses such as Saks,
Lord & Taylor
(http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgeminiadvisory.io%2Ffin7-syndicate-hacks-saks-fifth-avenue-and-lord-taylor%2F&esheet=51898599&newsitemid=20181112005700&lan=en-US&anchor=Saks%2C+Lord+%26+Taylor&index=1&md5=9bb781ffaff02a1d708f5fe8eb6b2bf2)
, Jason’s Deli, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, Forever
21, and Whole Foods. To break it down even further, 90% or 41.6 million
of those records were EMV chip-enabled.”

In the ongoing battle against credit card fraud SmartMetric a USA based
company, has created biometric credit card that is turned on by the card
holders’ fingerprint. “Using the power of biometrics, we have created a
much higher level of security to the common credit card,” said
SmartMetric’s President & CEO, Chaya Hendrick.

SmartMetric holds five issued patents pertaining to its biometric
credit/debit card. It is currently being offered to Banks in the United
States, Latin America and soon to be released to Banks in Europe.

The SmartMetric biometric card is as thin as a standard credit card with
a fully functional fingerprint scanner built inside the card along with
a rechargeable battery that allows the card to be used on all card
readers including ATM’s.

Follow this link to view the SmartMetric biometric credit card:

Using
the SmartMetric Card at an ATM
(http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FzSX59uHoHqU&esheet=51898599&newsitemid=20181112005700&lan=en-US&anchor=Using+the+SmartMetric+Card+at+an+ATM&index=2&md5=0506b608502d6847c399db4fa1b327ae)

Storing
your fingerprint on your card
(http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F0aAm_iGYvlo&esheet=51898599&newsitemid=20181112005700&lan=en-US&anchor=Storing+your+fingerprint+on+your+card&index=3&md5=1530ba4bb76ae20bc56eee5ff4da0f39)

SmartMetric
Biometric Portable Medical Records Card
(http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FFu1HCXpjaHQ&esheet=51898599&newsitemid=20181112005700&lan=en-US&anchor=SmartMetric+Biometric+Portable+Medical+Records+Card&index=4&md5=6b0d7156a300544e4893e14661fa630d)

* https://geminiadvisory.io/card-fraud-on-the-rise/
(http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgeminiadvisory.io%2Fcard-fraud-on-the-rise%2F&esheet=51898599&newsitemid=20181112005700&lan=en-US&anchor=https%3A%2F%2Fgeminiadvisory.io%2Fcard-fraud-on-the-rise%2F&index=5&md5=cab96b9068550757b1b26a63e619ebab)

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SmartMetric, Inc.
Chaya Hendrick
+1.702.990.3687
[e-mail] (mailto:[e-mail])
www.smartmetric.com
(http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smartmetric.com%2F&esheet=51898599&lan=en-US&anchor=www.smartmetric.com&index=6&md5=737d6b7e93f6abb6e7ec39e3b10cedf1)

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