South African bank to replace 12m cards after employees stole master key

nBATzgA · on June 16, 2020

This article about master keys, which also features the MasterCard [tm] logo, is written by the same journalist who called skeptics "detractors" in the git master affair.

ryanlol · on June 16, 2020

“journalist” https://www.zdnet.com/article/unsecured-mongodb-databases-ex...

rubatuga · on June 16, 2020

“Main” key

tobyhinloopen · on June 16, 2020

I laughed

tibbydudeza · on June 16, 2020

Way back when I worked at a bank we stored the TMK for the ATM's in the clear in Cobol source ... needless to say after an audit finding from Visa we soon got a HSM.

_yacj · on June 16, 2020

Disclaimer: I'm a South African living in the UK and yes, I know I'm generalising - excessively.

Jolly Sarf Africans! Light-fingered larcenists - can't leave them alone with anything these days! ;-)