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it's Monday April second 2012 I'm Bridget Carey on cnet com and it's time to get loaded more than 1.5 million visa and mastercard credit and debit card accounts may have had their information stolen the third-party payments processor to Visa and MasterCard a company called global payments held a press conference Monday to say the data breach to its system has been contained and it doesn't believe any fraudulent charges have been made using those stolen numbers and aside from the card numbers the company reports no other personal data like names addresses or social security numbers have been accessed the payment processor also isn't given any details about how it could have happened because it says the investigation is ongoing visa has dropped global payments but said it would work with the company in the future once the issues are resolved the app HBO Go is now available on more entertainment devices like the xbox 360 and Roku problem is not every cable provider is allowing customers to use the app HBO Go is a way for HBO subscribers to watch shows and movies on demand on different devices it's already been on iPhones iPads and Android devices and to access the app users have to prove they pay for HBO through a cable provider mobile devices aren't a problem but comcast and time warner are not allowing HBO subscribers to use the app on the xbox 360 Roku or even a samsung smart TV seems like Comcast and Time Warner see viewing HBO on demand on another home theater device is a threat to its own on-demand offerings just when he thought the angry birds game couldn't possibly get any bigger now there's a cartoon series on the way and a movie the wildly popular game will become a weekly animated series of shorts this fall with 52 episodes each lasting about three minutes and available on a variety of devices the movie though won't be ready for a couple of years you might have heard about an app called girls around me it used public Foursquare and Facebook data to automatically pinpoint the location of women on a map and these women were not signed up for this app service there was a public outcry over privacy and last week 4 squared blocked the app from using its location data now the russian-made app says it's being targeted on fairly as a scapegoat for privacy issues does girls around me have a valid point after all it was just showing women who already publicly published a location for anyone to see but naturally people get weirded out when information is used in a way they didn't expect like an app that encouraged people to find them and hit on them just another lesson and being careful about the information you share online those are your headlines for today I'm Bridget Carey for cnet.com and you just been loaded