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The systems penetrated by a malicious keylogger could result in a data breach that rivals the parent company of TJ Maxx in 2007.
By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
January 20, 2009 05:30 PM
Heartland Payment Systems, a leading payment processing company, on reported on Tuesday that its systems had been compromised by malware in 2008.
The data breach could turn out to rival the massive breach reported by TJX in 2007, which affected as many as 94 million credit card accounts. Heartland handles 100 million transactions per month for over 250,000 businesses. But the company is not yet ready to disclose the number of credit card accounts affected.
"We found evidence of an intrusion last week and immediately notified federal law enforcement officials as well as the card brands," said Robert H.B. Baldwin, Jr., Heartland's president and chief financial officer, in a statement. "We understand that this incident may be the result of a widespread global cyber fraud operation, and we are cooperating closely with the United States Secret Service and Department of Justice."
Heartland was altered to the breach by reports of suspicious transactions from Visa and MasterCard.
In a phone interview, Baldwin said that the bulk of the exposed data consisted of credit card numbers and expiration dates, ....
The systems penetrated by a malicious keylogger could result in a data breach that rivals the parent company of TJ Maxx in 2007.
By Thomas Claburn
InformationWeek
January 20, 2009 05:30 PM
Heartland Payment Systems, a leading payment processing company, on reported on Tuesday that its systems had been compromised by malware in 2008.
The data breach could turn out to rival the massive breach reported by TJX in 2007, which affected as many as 94 million credit card accounts. Heartland handles 100 million transactions per month for over 250,000 businesses. But the company is not yet ready to disclose the number of credit card accounts affected.
"We found evidence of an intrusion last week and immediately notified federal law enforcement officials as well as the card brands," said Robert H.B. Baldwin, Jr., Heartland's president and chief financial officer, in a statement. "We understand that this incident may be the result of a widespread global cyber fraud operation, and we are cooperating closely with the United States Secret Service and Department of Justice."
Heartland was altered to the breach by reports of suspicious transactions from Visa and MasterCard.
In a phone interview, Baldwin said that the bulk of the exposed data consisted of credit card numbers and expiration dates, ....
