[xcamel]

Not good..

[ShadowAce]

[xcamel]

More information: Heartland Payment Systems Uncovers Malicious Software In Its Processing System

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Swell....

[HollyB]

http://www.2008breach.com/

[informavoracious]

Why couldn’t they hack in to find out who all the foreign and illegitimate donors to Obama were?

[IbJensen]

In a more ‘unforgiving’ nation those whose positions included security of our information would be executed!

[LostInBayport]

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.

[KoRn]

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.

[anniegetyourgun]

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.

[xtinct]

Obama's Fault

[RobRoy]

“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.

[Enterprise]

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.

[RetiredArmy]

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.

[TheWasteLand]

because the data is sent unencrypted over Heartland’s internal network, a policy that Baldin justified as necessary “to get the authorization request out.”

Unbelievable. This guy should be drawn and quartered.

[antiRepublicrat]

The unknown hackers’ sniffers were able to pick up credit card numbers because the data is sent unencrypted over Heartland’s 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.

[FreePaul]

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.

[fanfan]

“Heartland believes the intrusion is [now] contained,” reads the press release.

LOL!

[BigDaddyTX]

Match that data with all of the $25 BO internet donations, remember how his internet guru was not aware that credit card processing companies had the ability to perform address verifications?

[Not_Who_U_Think]

Most amazing is that a company of this size and exposure would not be doing real-time network monitoring. At the very least, a decent firewall and log review would have shown the suspicious outbound traffic. There is just no excuse for this.

[RKBA Democrat]

Another reason to pay cash.