An attack against the Army's credit cards

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- An attack against the Army's credit cards -
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Madrid, August 28, 2003 - According to an article published by the Washington Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34263-2003Aug22.html, the US Navy has canceled 13,000 credit cards used for government expenses after discovering that hackers had stolen information related to these cards.

According to a Defense Department official, hackers had downloaded card numbers and billing records. However, Citibank, the card issuer, has found no unusual activity in the card accounts since hackers started extracting data in July and it has received no reports of fraud related to the incident.

The Navy discovered the security breach on July 30, when an Air Force Base in Ohio, detected an unusual amount of traffic in one of its servers.

Officials and investigation teams from the Navy and Department of Defense are still trying to find out which vulnerabilities the hackers exploited and how to prevent these kinds of attacks in the future. The bank has issued new cards to replace the 13,000 that have been compromised.

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