More on the Heartland Payment Systems Card Data Breach
Eric Dash and Brad Stone report for the New York Times on the payment card data breach announced yesterday by Heartland Payment Systems. The compromise may have occurred as early as last May but wasn't detected until late last fall.
The Heartland breach also showed that in spite of the adoption of more stringent standards and tougher oversight by banks and credit card companies, consumers are still vulnerable."You can follow the discussion about the Heartland card data breach among Twitter users and on our Other Blogs page.
I was one of those people but in a different way. The state of Ohio had my information on a laptop that was lost. I received 2 free years of credit monitoring as a result and didn't end up having any problems but none the less, I was dissapointed by that. One thing I don't understand is that our current state of technology allows us to not store any information on our computers so why does anything need to be on a computer? I know that other data breaches are common but in my example, it could have been avoided.
Posted by: elementary-finance | January 21, 2009 at 01:56 PM