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St. Petersburg Times Florida's Best Newspaper GQ tampabay.com es Thursday, Jane 1, 2008 Breach exposes Suncoast accounts The credit unionhas warned about 56,000 debit card holders. By mcous NoRRET ‘ines taf Wrier About 56,000 members of ‘Suncoast Schcols Federal Credit Union have been notified that their debit card accounts were exposed to fraud. Tis the latest casualty of last year’s breach of Heartland Pay- meat Systems one of the conn- ‘ry$ largest creditcard proces- sors, where information from ‘more than 100 million eredit and debit card transactions was exposed. ‘Not until the end of May did ‘Suncoast discover that some of is customers who wie Visa ‘Cheek Cards could bein danger. ‘TheTampa credit union is isos ing new cards to all members whose accounte were compro mised. “T: was nota Suncoast exela- sive event nor was it through ‘any fault of our own” said Metra ‘Mekay-Bass, senior vice pres- ident of member service opet= ations for Suncoast. “It was ‘hot anything that we had done wrong” ‘Suncoast, which has more than 450,000 members, has deter- FRAUD ‘continued from1A, Breach exposes Suncoast accounts Doers were actualy affected by fan as or Wednesday, McKay. Bas sid. ‘Only encrypted card aata sr comontin nt pened addresses and Social Security ‘nunbers Thecreditusion wean notifying affected members by Jeter in the frst week of Jane, Metayres sia ‘Suncoast elssed sate epet thi, Mekay-ass ‘ad, nicked some o ts member. “it_you hear on the news ‘that there has been breach for harsh words such as breach oF Internal seearity situation, 25 a customer of tat Manca instiution T would all to see if my account sie 0 that {5 excly what has happened. And thi fe exety whet we ‘wanted to wvoid she wid. ‘Vist hasa ero ably fraud poli that allows peeple who eport fraud to recoup thelr ‘mong. Afeted members went experience any iateruptons of Servie, bu thers willbe some time overiap between when ‘embers receive new cards and \whentheolfonesare canceled “Atno time do we want them to be mithoat he plas 0 ne want o make sure that he new ards in hand before the od ‘ard canceled” Mekay-Bss kw st Peterburg Tees | Thursday, June 2000 | 7A ‘Ties the rst ime Suncosst as relsued this many ears, ‘nd itis unvalisteto say that ‘iswabe teat she sad Tis 30 ura forthe fects ot seearty beaches wo a se tral years, sald vival Lita, Security’ analyst for Gartner esearch Tn 1007, TIX Cos. oper- tor of £1 Max and Miah, ‘nounced sured asecurty, lntruson that spanned sever ears and expose as many 1s ‘Pomition scours "There hasbeen recent tread ‘thactrs infteatingpaomest ‘ocesor tan sid "When a card is used, the ‘harge goes to a payment pro- ‘esser and then tothe bank fr {pprowal: Hackers se the da, to male countertelt cards and ‘ake purcases se sd “The banks get very upset shout hia Bente they have 0 ‘sorb the costs, so sometimes [es easier tout shut dev the Scout and reissue the cards” Tian suid Tis eomamon fr credit unions to reissue cards because they ‘ten ek tbe inastrucre 0 eal with heavy phone tafe from concerned members ae 1» moritor avis account, te 22 Concerts rowing n> srom cata teaching ep, Sieur sr oro npater Scr nse “Shor starting to get used corsage wo tiekinterinag! act “ihe amount of servnsnes otagssaeateoneis Scerataen tes oa igo ine” Sst encuaing is emer tonite ma ‘Sri assent ta {he rt non tee any Sua

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