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Re:Someone just lost 324k payment records, complete with CVVs by TimWolla on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @10:25AM (#12497136)
AFAIK the CVV is not required to perform a transaction. It's just that you take the hit in case a fraud occurs when you don't check the CVV.
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Re:Someone just lost 324k payment records, complete with CVVs by devicenull on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @07:16PM (#12502024)
Depends on your merchant account I believe. We tokenize them somehow, and can do further transactions by referencing the first transaction.
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