Credit Card Glossary: Terms and Definitions
Data breach
In the credit card industry, data breaches occur when hackers snatch credit card information that could be used to commit fraud or identity theft. Increasingly, data breaches occur at computing choke points through which many thousands of pieces of financial data must pass.
Terms from A-Z
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