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Roundup of largest data breaches / incidents

compliancesoftware — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:31:31 +0000

records date organizations 130,000,000 2009-01-20 Heartland Payment Systems, Tower Federal Credit Union, Beverly National Bank 94,000,000 2007-01-17 TJX Companies Inc. 90,000,000 1984-06-01 TRW, Sears Roebuck 76,000,000 2009-10-05 National Archives and Records Administration 40,000,000 2005-06-19 CardSystems, Visa, MasterCard, American Express 26,500,000 …

Heartland pays Amex $3.6 million over 2008 data breach – Network World

compliancesoftware — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:57:20 +0000

Heartland Payment Systems will pay American Express US$3.6 million to settle charges relating to the 2008 hacking of its payment system network. This is the first settlement Heartland has reached with a card brand since disclosing the incident in January …

Making PCI Stand For Coordination & Impact : Daniel Wallace

compliancesoftware — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:51:23 +0000

Onsite PCI assessments are not cheap. First make certain that you have to comply with the onsite assessment requirement. Although all of the major card brands are partners in PCI-DSS the number of transactions are counted by individual card brand. …

PCI Compliance: Frequently Asked Questions

compliancesoftware — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:41:15 +0000

Payment card industry compliance is confusing for many ecommerce merchants. But it potentially affects every merchant that accepts credit cards payments. Failure to understand the PCI compliance standards could result in higher merchant account fees and fines from the credit …

Identity Theft – PCI Chiefs Defend Standards, Plans – eWeek Security Watch

compliancesoftware — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 21:08:07 +0000

It’s a gross oversimplification of an utterly staggering technical and social challenge, and he knows it as well as anyone, but it’s hard to argue with PCI Security Standards Council General Manager Bob Russo’s assertion that when it comes to …

Retailer Wireless Devices Largely Unprotected

compliancesoftware — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:15:31 +0000

A new survey shows 44 percent of the wireless devices used by retailers are vulnerable to attacks by data thieves. And that’s the good news. A year ago, the same Motorola survey showed 85 percent of retailers were sitting targets …

IGT Awarded The First PCI DSS 1.2 Certification | webnewswire.com

compliancesoftware — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:33:23 +0000

IGT Awarded The First PCI DSS 1.2 Certification Submitted by newsdesk on Mon, 12/22/2008 – 19:42 IGT, a pioneer and global leader in travel technologies and services received the coveted PCI DSS 1.2 certification from leading …

American Express web bug exposes card holders • The Register

compliancesoftware — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:12:48 +0000

A glaring vulnerability on the American Express website has unnecessarily put visitors at risk for more than two weeks and violates industry regulations governing credit card companies, a security researcher says. Among other things, the cross-site scripting (XSS) error on …

IT PRO | PCI’s Bob Russo: Data loss hurts brand more than a fine

compliancesoftware — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:03:24 +0000

As Christmas shoppers spend away and data breaches keep hitting the headlines, the Payment Card Industry’s security council is charged with keeping customer’s data safe. By Miya Knights, 12 Dec 2008 at 11:14 The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard …

Gartner – Visa sets Global PCI deadline

compliancesoftware — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:57:02 +0000

Visa announced a global compliance program for the card industry’s key security standard. But many issues remain, including unclear European deadlines and the treatment of merchants that have chip card processing in place. On 10 November 2008, Visa announced new …