Company That Had The Largest Ever Credit Card Data Breach... Apparently Breached Again [Update]
from the hits-you-in-the-heartland dept
Remember Heartland Payment Systems? It's the giant credit card clearinghouse that was involved in the largest ever security breach in terms of the number of credit card numbers exposed. They were successfully targeted by the same guys who had also set the previous record for largest credit card data breach, so you could question whether the issue was just a sophisticated group of hackers or poor security at Heartland (or, possibly, a combination of both). Either way, it looks like Heartland may still have some issues. Carlo sends over the news that a new security breach has been discovered at a restaurant in Austin, Texas that appears to involve someone hacking into the network between the restaurant and Heartland. It's not yet clear if this goes beyond that one restaurant, but this can't look good for Heartland.Update: Heartland got in touch to let us know that this appears to be an issue outside of Heartland's system, and that Heartland is not the target of the investigation into the breach. Heartland's press release is basically pointing out that the weakness was with the restaurant's credit card security, not its own.
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Filed Under: breach, credit cards, security
Companies: heartland payment systems
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Remember Heartland Payment Systems?
Is this the same Carlo you fired about a year ago? How's he been? Is he still in Vegas?
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Security Breach Again!
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Re: Security Breach Again!
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PCI
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Largest ever? I think you mean largest yet. :P
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Somebody else's fault?
If they were intercepted before this point, then I think Heartland was not to blame...
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double trouble
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small business.
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