The Visa Security Summit 2009 is going on today. You can watch a live webcast at http://www.visasecuritysummit.com (free registration required). Ellen Richey, Chief Enterprise Risk Officer for Visa, Inc. wasted little time in her opening remarks before getting to the recent Heartland Payment Systems breach and Visa’s confidence in PCI DSS as an important tool…
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Heartland’s annual report to SEC reveals more investigations
Heartland Payment Systems filed its annual Form 10-K report with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday. The Legal Proceedings section lists all of the consumer, financial institution and stockholder lawsuits against it, and also indicates that it is under investigations in addition to ones previously reported: […] We have been advised by the SEC that…
Pointer: Visa Suspends Heartland: A Little Revisionist History?
Over on StorefrontBacktalk, Evan Schuman has some sharp and thought-provoking commentary on Visa’s suspension of Heartland’s and RBS’s approved status and assertions that “no compromised entity has been found to be [PCI] compliant at the time of the breach.”
Statement from Heartland Payment Systems
Just sent to me by HPS: Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE: HPY) is pleased to continue our long relationship with Visa. Heartland is cooperating fully with Visa and other card brands and we are committed to having a safe and secure processing environment. Heartland was certified as PCI-DSS compliant in April 2008 and expects to continue…
RBS WorldPay statement
In response to my request for a statement, a spokesperson for RBS WorldPay sent this statement: RBS WorldPay received its Payment Card Industry (PCI) Report on Compliance (ROC) in June of 2008 by a qualified assessor. Visa has asked us to obtain a new certification of PCI compliance because of the recent data-security compromise. Visa…
Visa confirms RBS WorldPay also placed on probation
As a follow-up to my earlier post today, media relations for RBS WorldPay contacted me. It appears that the number the main operator had given me for them was the wrong number, even though she confirmed it twice. In the meantime, I have obtained the following statement by Visa that confirms that, like Heartland Payment…