[rescue] FC-AL drives on sale at geeks.com

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at zill.net
Tue Jan 8 09:16:03 CST 2008


On Jan 8, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Dan Duncan wrote:
>
>> http://consumerist.com/341408/geekscom-website-hacked-customer- 
>> data-stolen
>
> Interesting that the verification numbers were stored there.  It's my
> understanding that the merchant agreements (and the card issuers
> themselves) forbid retaining the verification number.
>
> -- 

That is correct, though Visa/MC don't seem to really care too much as  
long as what happens doesn't hurt their brand.

--Patrick



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