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At this stage, we’re all well aware of credit card security and PCI compliance. However, there has been little mention of the user names and passwords used by customers. It is important to look into the storage of this critical data. There are shopping carts in use that store this information in plain text. This of course jeopardizes the customers’ security, because if hackers are able to compromise your server, all information becomes readily available to fraudulent elements.

Protecting Customer’s User names and Passwords in Merchant Accounts

At this stage, we’re all well aware of credit card security and PCI compliance. However, there has been little mention of the user names and passwords used by customers. It is important to look into the storage of this critical data.
Date Posted: August 08, 2008