Jason Lee Miller
Staff Writer
2009-01-21
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It's a tough line to swallow that Heartland Payment System's
announcement about the biggest security breach in history wasn't timed
to be effectively drowned out by inauguration buzz-about as hard to
swallow as the idea that tens of millions of credit card numbers are
essentially useless to those who snagged them.
History's Biggest Data Breach Upstaged By Biggest Inauguration
Let's back up. Yesterday, while all eyes were on Washington, New Jersey
based Heartland issued a press release sparsely detailing a security
breach affecting tens of millions credit and debit card transactions.
Visa and Mastercard alerted Heartland last week to suspicious
transactions stemming from what the company, after investigating, found
to be malicious software squatting on its network.
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