Clarification: Corporate Hacking-Arrests story

July 29, 2013 at 1:05PM
Paul Fishman, the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, speaks at a news conference announcing charges in a hacking case in Newark, N.J.
Paul Fishman, the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, speaks at a news conference announcing charges in a hacking case in Newark, N.J. (Stan Schmidt — New York Times/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

NEWARK, N.J. — In a July 25 story, The Associated Press reported that hackers stole about 800,000 card numbers in a 2011 attack on the Visa network. The story should have made clear that the attack was directed at a licensee in Jordan, Visa Jordan Card Services, and not on the central payment processing network used by Visa Inc.

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