January 22nd, 2009, 04:49 AM
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Malware infestation responsible for credit card data breach
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Move over TJ Maxx, payment processor Heartland Payment Systems has potentially leaked up to 100 million credit and debit accounts into the black market. That number, if verified, would make this the largest data breach on record. It also means the United States has managed to set two national records in the same day. Guess which one folks are paying attention to? Awful convenient, that.
Heartland's problems began late last year when the company began to receive reports of fraudulent activity. There is no hard evidence that the company's data leak was responsible for the sudden surge of mysterious microtransaction fees we reported in early December, but the timing is extremely coincidental. The December attacks were never successfully attributed to any single company or credit card, but instead affected a seemingly unrelated group of people with different banks, credit cards, and online shopping habits.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...ta-breach.html
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