ISR News: More Heartland Breach Victims

February 11, 2009 by ADMIN
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Excerpts From BankInfoSecurity’s Linda McGlasson

Bermuda, Canada and Guam Now Report Effects from Breach

By the latest count, the number of institutions that have informed their card customers and members that they were hit as a result of the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach has swelled to 157.

Heartland, the sixth-largest payments processor in the U.S., announced on Jan. 20 that its processing systems were breached in 2008, exposing an undetermined number of consumers to potential fraud. Since then, scores of banks and credit unions from across North America have stepped forward to say their customers are among those whose cards were compromised in the breach.

Expect the size and scope (and costs) to grow almost daily on this breach well into the second quarter of 2009.

Also of note:

“According to a MasterCard alert, this sniffer program stole card numbers and expiration dates from credit and debit cards processed by Heartland from May 14, 2008, through Aug. 19, 2008, as the information entered Heartland’s payment switch,”

www.storefrontbacktalk.com/securityfraud/more-heartland-details-leak-out-and-some-may-be-trying-to-leak-back-in/

These dates are significant in relation to on going questions about who at Heartland Payment Systems knew what about the breach and when did they know it:

http://information-security-resources.com/2009/01/29/did-heartland-ceo-make-insider-trades/

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Filed under: Breach, Class Action Lawsuit, D&O Liability, Financial, Government, Insider Threat, PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, Uncategorized, identity-theft, malware, privacy 

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