(MOBILE, Ala.) - A news station "down south" is reporting that a "major credit card security breach is affecting thousands of people tonight."  NBC15 Mobile, AL says they have confirmed several credit card companies are canceling accounts and issuing new credit and check cards.  Is it more Heartland fallout or new?  Hard to tell from this story, as they make it sound new.  Since I can't find anything else on it, either they have one heckuvan exclusive or they they are "just now" reporting about the Heartland Payment Systems breach which was announced last January. 

Here's their story:

Credit card companies say they wanted to play it safe and cancel the cards right away before mystery hackers spent too much of other people's money.  Nancy Pierce recently found $700 in unexplained charges on her credit card account. "It's scary when something like this happens," Pierce said. "You don't know who's doing it. "Most of these charges were phone cards from Australia."

Pierce is not the only one seeing mystery charges. Officials with Visa say several credit card companies have had to cancel thousands of accounts and are issuing new cards, because of a hacker.

"It was so great to know and I even thanked them," Pierce said. "I said thank you so much for keeping an eye on my account and for letting me know and stopping it before it got worse."

NBC 15 News contacted Visa to try to find out where the security breach happened.. A Visa representative told us: "For security, the bank does not disclose that information to its customers. They always are going to refer you to Visa, but unfortunately at Visa we don't have access to anyone's information. It can only be accessed through the bank."

Officials with Bank of America, a Visa cardholder, would not talk either. The bank says letters are already in the mail en route to their affected customers.

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