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On January 20, 2009 Heartland announced that it had been "the victim of a security breach within its processing system in 2008". [8] The data stolen included the digital information encoded onto the magnetic stripe built into the backs of credit and debit cards; with that data, thieves can fashion counterfeit credit cards by imprinting the same stolen information onto fabricated cards. [9]
This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles.. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continual
With all the earnest concern of a 2-year-old with milk on his chin, Heartland Payment Systems, a credit transaction processor for over 250,000 businesses, has reported a mighty considerable data ...
As a follow up confirmation: "Heartland, the fifth-biggest payments processor in the U.S., had suffered what within days would be called the largest-ever criminal breach of card data. Security experts estimate that as many as 100 million cards issued by more than 650 financial services companies may have been compromised.
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An internet leak is the unauthorized release of information over the internet.Various types of information and data can be, and have been, "leaked" to the Internet, the most common being personal information, computer software and source code, and artistic works such as books or albums.
Gonzalez's 2008, intrusion into Heartland Payment Systems to steal card data was characterized as the largest ever criminal breach of card data. [66] Also in June 2005, UK-based carders were found to be collaborating with Russian mafia and arrested as a result of a National Hi-Tech Crime Unit investigation, looking into Eastern European crime ...
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