Browsing the blog archives for January, 2009

22Jan09 Breach May Compromise 100 Million Credit Cards

One of the largest breaches in credit card history has taken place recently. Heartland Payment Systems, a credit-card company based in New Jersey had disclosed that criminals penetrated its network, and 100 million card-related data was stolen.The stolen data included the card number, expiration date and some proprietary coding, that can be used to make [...]