Paay, a New York-based card payments processor, left about 2.5 million credit card transactions publicly exposed for roughly three weeks. The organization forgot to put password protection on the server, allowing anyone to access the data inside. Specifically, the housed data contains plaintext credit card numbers, expiration dates, the amount spent and partially masked copies of each credit card number – cardholder names, CVVs were not included.
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