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Heartland Payment Systems Hacked, Possibly 100M Accounts Stolen
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| January 21, 2009 11:19 AM
| Tom Corelis
Posted on 01/21/2009 3:09:52 PM PST by xcamel
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posted on
01/21/2009 3:09:53 PM PST
by
xcamel
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
01/21/2009 3:15:57 PM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: xcamel
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posted on
01/21/2009 3:16:07 PM PST
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: xcamel
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posted on
01/21/2009 3:16:15 PM PST
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(FR......Monthly Donors Wanted)
To: xcamel
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posted on
01/21/2009 3:16:22 PM PST
by
HollyB
(Sleep well President Bush & Laura, you deserve it!)
To: xcamel
Why couldn’t they hack in to find out who all the foreign and illegitimate donors to Obama were?
To: informavoracious
My thought EXACTLY! Would be VERY interesting if there was some connection with the Identity Theft there, the microtransactions, and the mysterious sources of money flowing to the Obama campaign in the latter stages.
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posted on
01/21/2009 3:19:40 PM PST
by
supremedoctrine
("One was drawing funny faces, but his own was grave"--Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica)
To: xcamel
In a more ‘unforgiving’ nation those whose positions included security of our information would be executed!
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posted on
01/21/2009 3:19:51 PM PST
by
IbJensen
(The USA has been failing since Wilson, Take this country back now before it's too late.)
To: xcamel
In a press release timed to coincide with the inauguration of President Barack Obama, credit card processor Heartland Payment Systems announced Tuesday
I was going to cuss Heartland for delaying the release until January 20th (the theft occurred "sometime in 2008")...and that was a sleazy thing to do to those who might have been able to catch the theft of their identity in the past week or so. But Heartland can't be blamed for a national media that cannot cover two major stories at once on a good day, much less on a momentous day in their shameless worship of the American Idol President.
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posted on
01/21/2009 3:32:15 PM PST
by
LostInBayport
(The press and the Barackolytes view you as a miracle worker...so turn the economy into wine, Barry.)
To: xcamel; ShadowAce
I wonder if they use Windows based clients and servers.
It would be totally IRRESPONSIBLE for such a business to run Windows operating systems on anything. If my account was compromised because of spyware or a virus, I would bring civil action against them for knowingly using an inherently insecure operating system to handle my transactions. I would also sue Micro$h1t.
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posted on
01/21/2009 3:51:39 PM PST
by
KoRn
To: xcamel
This kind of thing getting out of hand will be used as justification for the U.S. government to take control of more and more information - as well as the technology that maintains that info.
Controlling our financial, personal, movement, health information, internet use, food intake, and our "carbon allottment" will be sold to us as a great solution to "keeping us safe, healthy, and secure." All of that can easily be delivered via something on/in the body.
To: KoRn
Lemme guess, you want them running Mac or Linux?
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posted on
01/21/2009 3:57:19 PM PST
by
ConservativeMind
(What's "Price Gouging"? Should government force us to sell to the 15th highest bidder on eBay?)
To: xcamel
Obama's Fault
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posted on
01/21/2009 4:00:37 PM PST
by
xtinct
("There's a sucker born every minute." P.T. Barnum)
To: xcamel
“Sub-25 cent transactions”
This is sorta new, isn’t it. The hackers seem to be doing what banks, etc. have been doing for decades - charge lots of people a little money. No real “victims” in a case like this. I would not consider myself terribly victimized if someone charged my card an amount so small that if I found it lying on the sidewalk I wouldn’t bother picking it up.
If I saw it on my bill, I would not bother bringing it up. They could probably ding me for months before I started really wondering what was going on, and then only out of curiosity.
How downright diabolical.
Pretty sneaky.
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posted on
01/21/2009 4:10:24 PM PST
by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
To: xcamel
Just yesterday I received a call from my financial institution. Our debit card was being canceled and a new one issued because the information had been compromised. Since we tend to use our debit card for restaurant dining I am pretty sure the cancellation was related to the Heartland compromise.
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posted on
01/21/2009 4:10:24 PM PST
by
Enterprise
(A Representive Republic - gone now. Foolish people.)
To: xcamel
Ain’t technology grand? And they want to keep doing more and more and more and more on line and using computers. Just more to be stolen.
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posted on
01/21/2009 4:10:57 PM PST
by
RetiredArmy
("When a politician masquerades as a messiah, be very afraid." (nicely said in article))
To: ConservativeMind
Never mind the OS platform, how about just encrypting credit card numbers on their local network?
Heartland Pres., Baldwin said sending all data unencrypted over their internal network is necessary “to get the authorization out”. I think what he means is that internal encryption would delay authorization by a second or two, and besides, it would cost money.
Now I have to worry if my card is compromised. I think the inevitable lawsuits will cost a lot more that fast internal encryption.
My company does encryption on all data and telephone leaving our building. Modern, fast encryption slows transmission very minimally.
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posted on
01/21/2009 4:15:35 PM PST
by
jimtorr
To: xcamel
because the data is sent unencrypted over Heartlands internal network, a policy that Baldin justified as necessary to get the authorization request out.Unbelievable. This guy should be drawn and quartered.
To: xcamel
The unknown hackers sniffers were able to pick up credit card numbers because the data is sent unencrypted over Heartlands internal network, a policy that Baldin justified as necessary to get the authorization request out. Big fat honkin' male bovine excrement! Ever heard of hardware encryption, practically instantaneous? Ever heard of IPSec? This is just an excuse for poor security practices.
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posted on
01/21/2009 4:21:50 PM PST
by
antiRepublicrat
("I am a firm believer that there are not two sides to every issue..." -- Arianna Huffington)
To: xcamel
Just before Christmas Visa called and said that they were canceling my card and issuing another one. The reason given was that my information had been “compromised.” Wouldn’t give me any details. Be interesting to know if this happened to others.
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posted on
01/21/2009 4:24:48 PM PST
by
FreePaul
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