Canadian Tire (TSX:CTC) says it has cancelled and is re-issuing 16,000 Mastercard credit cards issued by its financial services arm over security concerns. Spokeswoman Lisa Gibson says the cards were deemed to be at risk after a widespread security breach disclosed last week by Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE:HPY), a U.S. credit card transaction processor. Gibson…
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Heartland Sniffer Hid In Unallocated Portion Of Disk
Evan Schuman of StorefrontBacktalk reports: The sniffer malware that surreptitiously siphoned tons of payment card data from card processor Heartland Payment Systems hid in an unallocated portion of a server’s disk. The malware, which was ultimately detected courtesy of a trail of temp files, was hidden so well that it eluded two different teams of…
NC: SECU probes fraud cases after security breach
Renee Chou reports: Officials with the State Employees Credit Union are investigating 40 cases of fraud in the wake of a security breach at a company that processes credit card payments nationwide. […] SECU receives card transactions through Visa, which receives the transactions from Heartland. The credit union has issued new credit cards and personal…
Send in the lawyers (Heartland Payment Systems update)
Over on Computerworld, Jaikumar Vijayan reports that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the Heartland Payment Systems breach: […] A Pennsylvania law firm today filed the first class action lawsuit related to the breach. The lawsuit was filed by Chimicles & Tikellis LLP of Haverford, PA on behalf of Alicia Cooper, a resident…
Pointer: More CUs report Heartland breach impact
The Credit Union National Association is also posting their own roundup of how some credit unions are being affected by the Heartland Payment Systems breach.
Roundup of local Heartland breach stories
It seems that now all of the local media have picked up the story and are reporting on local banks and credit unions. Given the extent of the breach, listing each story as a separate post is unwarranted, but here’s a roundup of stories over the past few days: Another area credit union impacted by…