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Pakistan denies mass bank data breach, reports card-skimming

By Syed Raza Hassan and Asif Shahzad on Nov 7, 2018 6:44AM
Pakistan denies mass bank data breach, reports card-skimming

Credit and debit cards hit.

Pakistan's central bank rushed on Tuesday to reassure investors and consumers that its banking system had not been hacked after a mass skimming operation hit customers' credit and debit cards. The skimming took details of nearly 20,000 debit and credit cards from 22 Pakistani banks, according to ...

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By Syed Raza Hassan and Asif Shahzad
Nov 7 2018
6:44AM
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