When the company discovers an exposed credit card number, it notifies Scotland Yard, which then sends the information to banks who presumably close the account and notify the credit card holder.

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It seems as if a story runs in the paper every day reporting another high-profile breach of security that exposed consumer credit card information and social media accounts.

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The Bank of Israel released a statement last Tuesday saying that, based on information from credit card companies, only around 15, 000 credit card numbers were exposed and those credit cards were blocked for use in Internet and phone purchases.

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The scale of the Citi attack is hardly unusual, given that others at companies like TJX in 2007 or Heartland Payment Systems in 2009 likely exposed more than a hundred times as many credit card accounts.

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Like most debit card users, 401(k) investors have unwittingly exposed themselves to problems IRA investors will never encounter.

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But her lies were exposed when her head teacher tried to visit the child in hospital to deliver a card.

BBC: Kelly Baker