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Old Oct 25, 2014 | 11:49 am
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julianm
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Originally Posted by D582
No. The actual card number is used for EMV transactions. It is not hard to read this off the chip.
Really! Huh. I thought the increased security with EMV was in part through not giving merchants original card number. I guess the dynamic auth number is read *in addition to* original number?

Didn't realize the original number obfuscation was a new thing to Apple Pay over EMV. Neat.
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