To make up for some of the lost revenue from this and prior regulatory changes, some card issuers have already employed new tactics: higher fees on balance transfers and cash advances, increased chargesfor overseas transactions and new or higher annual fees on cards.
Thereafter, Butu admitted to attempting to use the stolen data for the purpose of making unauthorized charges on, or transfers of funds from, the accounts.
The Liberal government itself is vulnerable to charges from Mr Day that, by massively cutting tax revenue transfers to the provinces for social services during the years of federal deficit-reduction, it had greatly damaged the health-care system before starting to restore the cuts this year.