Heartland Payment Systems Credit Card Breach
Jan1
According to foxnews.com and also reported on the companies website, one of the largest credit card breaches ever reported. A New Jersey based company, Heartland Payment Systems Inc, reported on 1/20/2009 that hackers got access to their network and had access to the 100 million credit card transactions they process monthly.
Heartland Payment Systems has created a website just about this problem. The website can be found http://www.2008breach.com. As stated on this website no Social Security numbers or credit cards were compromised in the attack.
Wow I bet someone is getting fired. I don’t know if I could work at tech company that handles credit card process and such. I get parinoid enough just setting up a gateway connection to paypal or other merchant accounts. As the great quote goes – if someone can program it, someone else can decompile it and find its flaws.
