In what comes as no real surprise to me based on what I had been thinking, Jaikumar of Computerworld reports: Days after Visa Inc. seemingly confirmed that a data breach had taken place at a third payment processor, following on the recent breach disclosures by Heartland Payment Systems Inc. and RBS WorldPay Inc., the credit…
Category: Hack
Bits ‘n Pieces (update 1)
In the criminal justice system: A Baldwin woman who used to work for CitiBank will now spend two years in prison for aggravated identity theft and bank fraud. A federal judge in Jacksonville handed down 26-year-old Isla Brumfield’s sentence Thursday. According to court documents, Brumfield had worked in the Customer Service Sales Department at CitiBank….
No, the unnamed processor breach is not another Heartland breach
Despite what some people might have suggested, Heartland Payment Systems has flatly denied that it is in any way responsible for the newest reports of another payment processor breach. In response to a blog entry on The Consumerist, Nancy Gross, Heartland’s Executive Director of Marketing, replied: We, too, have heard of a new breach. But,…
When banks get religion
Heartland Payment System reports 4th Quarter Gains
Of course, the fourth quarter ended before they announced that they had been breached. They had this to say about the breach in their press release today (via Marketwatch): Clearly our biggest challenge in 2009 will arise from the system breach we suffered. There are two main components to the challenge we face: addressing claims…
How many strikes before they’re out?
A tip of my cap to Jai Vijayan of Computerworld, who in the process of digging into the second recent University of Florida breach realized that the university had had a third breach in the past three months that hadn’t made the media. Three breaches in three months sounds pretty bad, but it sounds even…