Visa looks into Eastern European security breach

Visa is investigating a potential security breach that may have compromised payment cards of Eastern Europeans.

Although Visa hasn't disclosed which countries were hit, the Romanian state-owned CEC Bank has blocked and reissued 17,000 cards on suspicion that they had been compromised.

CEC Bank said in a statement that "a number" of cards issued by banks both in Romania and abroad might have been compromised via an international database.

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