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People in British Columbia, Canada woke up to news reports of massive fraud involving debit-cards. The details are still sketchy, The fraud involves thousands of cards and millions of dollars.

T-Mobile staff in the UK allegedly sold customer data to brokers, who in turn sold it to competing phone firms. These firms then started calling customers, whose contracts with T-Mobile were about to expire, trying to get them to switch.

PCI-DSS 1.2 discourages the use of MD5, in favor of the newer and better SHA1 algorithm. But I keep getting questions on whether use of MD5 is a security threat or whether it will impact PCI compliance.