Flaw in New ‘Secure’ Credit Cards Would Let Hackers Steal $1M Per Card

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Tuesday, November 4th, 2014
Flaw in New ‘Secure’ Credit Cards Would Let Hackers Steal $1M Per Card
As U.S. banks and retailers are barreling toward a 2015 deadline to replace magnetic-stripe credit and debit cards with more secure cards that come embedded with a microchip, researchers have announced a critical flaw in the card system.

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