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Largest Data Breach Disclosed During Inauguration
rmogull writes "Brian Krebs over at the Washington Post just published a story that Heartland Payment Systems disclosed what may be the largest data breach in history. Today. During the inauguration. Heartland processes over 100 million transactions a month, mostly from small to medium-sized businesses, and doesn't know how many cards were compromised. The breach was discovered after tracing fraud in the system back to Heartland, and involved malicious software snooping their internal network. I've written some additional analysis on this and similar breaches. It's interesting that the biggest breaches now involve attacks installing malicious software to sniff data — including TJX, Hannaford, Cardsystems, and now Heartland Payment Systems." One bit of good news out of this massive breach is that, according to Heartland's CFO, "The nature of the [breach] is such that card-not-present transactions are actually quite difficult for the bad guys to do because one piece of information we know they did not get was an address." Heartland just put up a press release on the breach.
As soon as Barack Obama became President, the world started falling apart.
I warned this would happen but you were just too damn proud to listen.
Game over, man. Game over.
This is why I never go on the internet. It's just not safe.
"Researcher says Linux is better than Windows on Pedantic Asshole day."
There, is that better?
Then prove it - what is the security code on the back?
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Yeah, but that was good news...
And Linux is always better than Windows on Slashdot, because every day is Pedantic Asshole day here!
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Come on, use the right word! They COPIED the data, not STOLE it, unless they really did delete it from the original server, in which case they would have noticed it missing immediately.
good point. not even the Iraqi information minister would stoop so low....
Hmmm...B.H. Obama. Jeffery, get out the phone book. We need to determine where this guy lives.