Computer hackers have attacked a company that processes online credit and debit card transactions for thousands of UK businesses, it has emerged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WorldPay, which is part of Edinburgh-based Royal Bank of Scotland Group, said it had been bombarded with millions of bogus e-mails in the past couple of days, which had left the firm struggling to deal with genuine payments.<\/p>\n
The bulk of its clients are located in the UK and mainland Europe, and payment requests from websites are normally sent in via e-mail.<\/p>\n
The firm said a massive number of messages from elsewhere had come in to the same address over a 24-hour period.<\/p>\n
As a result, transaction requests have either crashed or been slowed down.<\/p>\n
However, it appears those behind the e-mails – which originate in the Ukraine – have set out to disrupt business rather than attempt to commit fraud.<\/p>\n
At the start of this year, Visa and Mastercard admitted a hacker had gained access to more than five million credit card accounts.<\/p>\n
More recently, net provider PSINet and security firm PanSec International said an unprotected website they set up as part of a study was attacked about 2000 times a week over a two-month period.<\/p>\n
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