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Re:Ask HN: Booking.com sends raw CC data to Hotels. Is it le... by chatmasta on Monday January 08, 2018 @11:38PM (#16103650)
That’s actually very interesting. Thanks.

Do they do this via a partnership with MasterCard or something? Basically similar to prepaid cards?

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Re:Ask HN: Booking.com sends raw CC data to Hotels. Is it le... by boysabr3 on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:25AM (#16113883)
They should be using an issuing processor (a financial institution that works with Visa or MasterCard) to issue card numbers. Issuing processors can easily generate card numbers programmatically + on the fly.
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Re:Ask HN: Booking.com sends raw CC data to Hotels. Is it le... by chatmasta on Thursday January 11, 2018 @11:35PM (#16130432)
Thanks for the info. I haven’t heard the term issuing processor before.
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