Attackers get the data bank card leading US retailers, used them for buying Apple products in the retail stores of the company, using the app Apple Pay.
As reported today by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), an attacker who gains access to bank card customers of major US retailers such as Home Depot and Target, in its currently undergoing large-scale hacker attacks (when data were kidnapped more than 50 million people), use them to make purchases using applications Apple Pay. Most purchases – about 80% – was committed in retail stores Apple. This is explained not so much personal preference criminals, as the fact that it was Apple’s products have the highest resale value among those that are sold in other retail companies that have joined the system, Apple Pay.
Sources newspapers separately emphasize that the system itself is Apple Pay was not hacked. Criminals injected data stolen credit cards in smartphones Apple. Apple Pay application allows you to use a smartphone with an application loaded in the same way as use their own credit card.
Apple refuses to disclose the total number of users of Apple Pay, saying only that the application falls Two out of every three dollars spent when paying by mobile applications in the United States. As for the publication in the WSJ, the representative of the company commented:
«Apple Pay created so as to be extremely robust and protects the personal information of the owner. When you install Apple Pay application requires the bank to confirm each of the bindable cards and bank itself determines whether the card be linked to Apple Pay. Banks regularly review and improve its verification process, which varies from bank to bank ».
According to sources, WSJ, banks using the platform Apple Pay, already engaged in making changes to their procedures Security payments: it is the banks should verify the information about the client before the card can be used to pay for using a smartphone.
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