Payment Processor Hacked, Up To 100 Million Credit Cards Breached

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01-21-2009, 11:18 AM,

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Payment Processor Hacked, Up To 100 Million Credit Cards Breached

Quote:A data breach disclosed [Tuesday] by Heartland Payment Systems may well displace TJX Companies' January 2007 breach in the record books as the largest ever involving payment data with potentially over 100 million cards being compromised.

Heartland, a N.J.-based provider of credit and debit card processing services said that unknown intruders had broken into its systems sometime last year and planted malicious software to steal card data carried on the company's networks. The company, which is among the largest payment processors in the country, claimed to have discovered the intrusion only last week ... Given that Heartland processes more than 100 million card transactions per month, it is very possible that the number of compromised credit and debit cards is at least that much.

full article: http://blogs.computerworld.com/biggest_e...ata_breach

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