American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.

Susan K Gluch

Sulabh Monga

Aman Baweja

Rajat Jain

Abhishek Jha

Krishnendu Das

Rama Krishna Avinash Varma Kakarlapudi

Disclosed are various embodiments for detecting security breaches using watchdog transaction accounts. A security agent can initiate a purchase with a first electronic commerce system and provide a watchdog transaction account as payment for the purchase. The security agent can then store a record of the purchase which includes a merchant identifier for the merchant and the watchdog transaction account. Subsequently, a transaction authorization system can determine that authorization for a transaction with second electronic commerce system failed. If the transaction authorization system determines that the account used in the transaction with the second electronic commerce system, then the transaction authorization system can determine that the first electronic commerce system has suffered a security breach.

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Mesa, AZ, United States of America

Susan K Gluch