Hacker steals data from VISA and MasterCard; announces on Twitter

A hacker, going by the name Reckz0r (@Reckz0r), recently tweeted  that he has managed to illegally access the servers of 79 large banks, which he had been targeting since the past 3 months. In a follow-up tweet, Reckz0r revealed that he leaked half the data from VISA, one of the world's largest credit and debit-card processing networks and MasterCard. He also went on to state that the entire file was about 50GB or more. Reckz0r wrote, "I just leaked a half data of VISA & Mastercard, the full one is about 50GB or bigger," and in an earlier tweet, mentioned, "I penetrated over 79 large banks, I've been targetting these banks since 3 months." Click here for full story