From: Chris Walsh (cwalshcwalsh.org)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2006 - 21:29:01 CDT

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Looks like the racetrack item was but a minor instance:

 From http://www.first.org/newsroom/globalsecurity/15436.html

Online fraudsters tried to charge money to stolen credit and debit
cards this past weekend using the processing service of a major
online payment provider. According to CNET News.com, several Web
hosting companies that use the Authorize.Net service to accept credit
cards online saw a quick surge in transactions, most for $500 and
$700. The charges were billed to Visa, MasterCard and American
Express cards across the U.S., representatives for three Web hosts
told the news site.

"These hackers got their hands on high-quality data, and they used
merchants of ours to run that data through the merchant's Web site,
which goes through our platform," said David Schwartz, a spokesman
for Authorize.Net in American Fork, Utah. The Web hosting companies
came across the unusual charges through the e-mail alerts that
Authorize.Net sends after each transaction. Close to 3,000 suspicious
transactions were pushed through the merchant accounts of at least
three companies.
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