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A Texas man who stole more than a thousand credit and debit card numbers was sentenced today to 58 months in federal prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas said Tuesday. Odis Edwards, 40, of Lewisville, …

The adoption of credit-card chip technology by U.S. retailers is having an unintended consequence: Criminals are moving from brick-and-mortar stores to the internet. The use of stolen card data to pay for merchandise on websites, in mobile apps and by …