Bank CYA letter re Visa/CSS check card hack
Visa informed my bank that Card Systems Solutions, Inc., a third-party that processes check/debit card transactions at over for over 100,000 retail, mail order, and Internet merchants, had an incident involving unauthorized access. A computer hack between 8/2004 and 5/2005. My check card number, name as it appears on the card, expiration date, and magnetic strip data were potentially exposed. Well, I try not to use check cards over the Internet and mail order so must have been brick and mortar retail.
Of course my bank was not at fault and CSS is not a service provider of theirs. Also, they have no evidence my card has been used fraudulently or for identity theft purposes. Whew! I can sleep tonight. They will cancel my card 8/31/2005 and reissue a new one. They need to cancel it today. Earth to FDIC. Help!
To top it all off the letter is from the VP and Director of Customer Experience. Oh! My heart flutters.
They will be learning of Wave, TPMS, and specifically Diebold ATMs as soon as I can get an email together. Also need some retail card reader names involved with TCG and Wave to give them.
I guess I'd better catch up months of reconciling my account statement.
