Visa and Mastercard will improve cards security by adding fingerprint sensors.

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Worldwide payment card systems Visa and MasterCard are developing a new level of security for payment, made via bank cards.

The companies are testing fingerprint sensors, which will be located directly on the plastic card, Liga reported.

If the card is stolen or tampered, the attacker will not be able to use terminal, cash register to accept credit card payments. Even when he entered the correct pin, the system will not allow payment.

Prospects for the widespread of such security are vague, as US banks have already spent about $ 1 billion in the last few years to produce new cards with chips.

As «The Journalist» reported, Visa company is implementing the system of electronic payments projects in Kiev.