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One of the three people indicted by the US over involvement in stealing millions of credit card and debit card numbers, which were then either used by the gang or sold, has been sentenced to a 10-year jail sentence by the US District Court in Seattle.

Researchers at ETH Zurich, a university for science and technology studies, have used a man-in-the-middle attack to bypass the use of a PIN code by Mastercard payment cards, and also those from Maestro.

A survey of 1000 Australians has found that about half (48 percent) are now using their smartphones to make payments, either through use of an app — including mobile banking — or else through other functionality.