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Attackers Turn Focus to PoS Vendors

Posted on December 13, 2014 by Dissent

Brian Prince reports:

The recently reported attack on Charge Anywhere puts the payment solutions provider on a list of PoS vendors attacked this year.

This week, the payment gateway solution provider Charge Anywhere revealed that it had been victimized by a data breach that may have compromised data going as far back as 2009.

Charge Anywhere provides payment gateway services, cloud point-of-sale (PoS) solutions, mobile PoS, and other technologies aimed at banks, enterprises, and payment processors. The attack stands as another example of hackers targeting payment card data by going after PoS vendors, as opposed to just merchants.

In September, the PoS system vendor Signature Systems acknowledged it was the source of a breach in which an attacker gained access to a username and password the company used to access PoS systems remotely; the attacker used that name and password to install data-stealing malware. In June, Information Systems & Supplies announced that it had been breached, and that customer data had been exposed.

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