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KrebsOnSecurity.com reported this week that an Atlanta-based airport parking service, Park-n-Fly, may have been hit by an online credit card breach, based on financial institutions reporting a pattern of fraud.

"The security incident, if confirmed, would be the latest in a string of card breaches involving compromised payment systems at parking services nationwide," the site said.

Park-n-Fly said it has hired outside security firms to investigate, and has not yet found a breach. Krebs also noted that SP Plus, a parking service in Chicago, and the St. Louis Parking Company in Missouri have both experienced credit card breaches in the past three months.

In related news, a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll has found that 45 percent of American consumers have received notice that they or a member of their households has had card information stolen in a data security breach. "That figure has contributed to what many retail analysts are calling ‘breach fatigue,' " the Journal said.

The report also found that 15 percent have been affected by online fraud or hacking – up from 11 percent four years ago.

NAFCU was the first financial trade organization to call for national data security standards for retailers in the wake of the massive Target data breach last year, and continues to push for legislative action. Credit unions are already subject to standards under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. NAFCU has also pushed for a bipartisan-bicameral working group in Congress to develop a legislative response to the continuing series of retailer data security breaches.