http://www.csoonline.com/article/2304654/hacktivism/american-express-issues-alert-after-anonymous-dumps-cardholder-data.html
By Steve Ragan
CSO
June 2, 2014
In a letter to the California Attorney General's Office (OAG), American
Express says that 76,608 people in the state will get a breach
notification letter after some of their data was published by Anonymous
Ukraine earlier this year.
In March, Anonymous Ukraine released more than 7 million records as part
of a protest against the financial firms that helped "enslave" people the
world over.
"After the USA showed its true face when she unilaterally decides which of
the peoples to live independently and who under the yoke of the Federal
Reserve, we decided to show the world who is behind the future collapse of
the American banking system," Anonymous Ukraine supporters wrote at the
time.
In all, they released 3,255,663 records from Visa; 1,778,749 records from
MasterCard; 362,132 record from Discover; and 668,279 records from
American Express. To date, only American Express has taken notification
steps.
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