Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database with 340M Records

Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by patrickg_zill on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:08AM (#17422343)

From what I know, it started a few years ago; but not all big stores had the equipment in place to send it (the cc processors give them a discount for sending the line-item level 3 data).

With the advent of the chip and pin cards in the USA, it seems logical that just about everyone upgraded to equipment that does support it; which might explain why you are only seeing this in the past year.

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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by axaxs on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:18AM (#17422386)

So, this seems a little opposite of what I meant. Naive me always assumed I pay with a card, the store gets my cc info to charge and we part ways. I'm getting in the mail ads from Meijer, for items I buy frequently. This tells me they were able to extract my home address and name from my credit card. Is that accurate?

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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by 18pfsmt on Friday June 29, 2018 @11:36AM (#17425102)

I worked for the largest merchant acquirer ~11 years ago, and we were collecting SKU-level data for Wal-mart at that time.

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Re:Marketing Firm Exactis Leaked a Personal Info Database wi... by thelastidiot on Friday June 29, 2018 @12:59AM (#17422517)

Yes, these data are all available, if you are willing to pay to get those.

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