Heartland: PCI-compliant payments processor discusses life after a data breach

["Randy Braatz" <rBraatz () excentus com>]

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Heartland Payment Systems, a major payment processor, is the latest
victim of a data breach believed to have exposed an unknown number of
credit and debit cardholders to the risk of fraud. In early January,
chairman and CEO Bob Carr learned that the company's systems had been
compromised by malicious software (or malware).

Although the number of affected consumers affected remains unspecified,
security experts fear that the Heartland breach could rival some of the
largest data thefts on record. Disturbing as that news is, Heartland
insists that cardholder Social Security numbers, unencrypted PINs,
addresses and phone numbers were not at risk of compromise. In the vast
majority of cases, the cardholder's name was not at risk, either.

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