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Biggest-ever credit card theft - Plastic card details of millions of British US shoppers have been stolen world's biggest-ever attack by credit card criminals Glitch wrecks 400,000 paydays - Some 400,000 workers will not get paid as usual today because of problems with banking system that handles salary payments



Biggest-ever credit card theft  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Plastic card details of millions of British and US shoppers have been stolen in the world's biggest-ever attack by credit card criminals
Glitch wrecks 400,000 paydays  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Some 400,000 workers will not get paid as usual today because of problems with the banking system that handles salary payments
Market report: Friday close  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
17.00:Share prices traded within a narrow range as big City institutions took a look back at what has been a volatile few weeks
Boots bid raised to £10bn  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Alliance Boots deputy chairman and his private equity backers have unleashed an improved £10bn offer for the High Street giant
'Real' anti-ageing cream sold out  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Sales of a £17 Boots anti-ageing cream have rocketed after a study for a BBC TV science programme showed it reduces wrinkles
Air passengers get more rights  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Air passengers are in line to get beefed up rights to compensation when their flights are cancelled, amid claims airlines are wriggling out of payments
Card victims told 'don't call police'  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Victims of debit and credit card fraud are being told not to bother reporting the crime to police, in a move that has stunned security experts
Live football on BBC virtually at an end  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
The BBC's live football coverage was in crisis today after ITV won the rights to screen FA Cup matches
Premiership footballer goes bust  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
£50,000-a-week footballer John Arne Riise has been declared bankrupt by the courts for an unpaid debt of around £100,000
Gatwick bid war looms as BAA faces break-up  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
The prospect of a fierce £3bn bidding war for Gatwick Airport moved closer after the Competition Commission was brought in to investigate the potential break-up of BAA
Brown says US woes will not hit home  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Chancellor Gordon Brown has shrugged off the dangers to the UK posed by the US economic slowdown and property slump
OFT delays bank charge decision  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Consumers will have to wait until the end of the year to find out what the Office of Fair Trading considers is a fair default charge on a current account
Rate rise sparks remortgage rush  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Homeowners looking to beat rising interest rates helped push up the number of mortgages taken out in February
Millions to pay more for water  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Millions of householders across Britain are to be hit with higher water bills in the coming weeks. See what you will pay| 10 ways to cut water bills
Virgin TV leavers must act fast  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
The clock is ticking for cable customers who want to leave Virgin TV or try and bag a better deal following the loss of Sky channels
Boiler room investors miss out  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Investors have seen their hopes of reclaiming money lost to a boiler room scam dashed after the solicitor that aided the fraud was made bankrupt
Loan cover refunds get go-ahead  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
A major victory in the battle against rip-off payment protection insurance has been won with insurers agreeing to offer 'fair' refunds when customers cancel policies
Npower price cut 'is a fake'  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Millions of loyal customers of Britain's biggest electricity supplier will not see a penny from the company's latest price reduction
Xmas savings club cash to be protected  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
New safeguards drawn up in wake of the Farepak Christmas club collapse will protect savers in future, the Government said today
Don't blog yourself out of a job  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Employers are checking the 'internet reputations' of job applicants by looking at their blog pages at MySpace, Blogger and Facebook
Skoda voted Britain's best car  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
Japanese cars have been knocked off their perch as British motorist's favourite model by the model that used to be a joke
30 second guide to computer-based trades  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
The Daily Mails City team examine the trades that have reached a staggering £500bn plus a day
Discipline for a false market  [03/31/2007 01:17 PM]
The City needs to be far more alert in tracking sudden price movements. Otherwise regulators could be accused of allowing false markets to develop