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PCI’s Shield Suffers Another Blow As Heartland Reports a Hack

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Merchant acquirer Heartland Payment Systems Inc. reported on Tuesday that it has found malicious software on its processing system, the result of a breach that happened in 2008 but which Heartland says is now contained. The malware captured an unknown quantity of card numbers and expiration dates along with a lesser amount of cardholder names linked to the numbers. That has led to an undetermined amount of fraud, Robert H.B. Baldwin, Jr., Heartland’s president and chief financial officer, tells Digital Transactions News. Coming shortly after the RBS WorldPay breach, Heartland’s is the second disclosure in less than a month of a compromise at a big acquirer and a further indication that cyber criminals are turning their attention to merchant processors.

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