By the latest count, the number of institutions that have informed their card customers and members that they were hit as a result of the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach has swelled to more than 678.
Heartland, the sixth-largest payments processor in the U.S., announced on Jan. 20 that its processing...
The number of identity fraud victims has increased 22 percent in the U.S., costing 9.9 million victims a total of $48 billion in 2008.
This is the news from the fifth annual Identity Fraud Survey Report from Javelin Strategy & Research. In an exclusive interview, James Van Dyke, Javelin founder and President,...
The fraud against 16 credit cards of CU Community Credit Union members over one weekend last November puzzled the credit union's staff. The Springfield, MO-based credit union discovered nearly $11,000 in fraudulent charges against those cards.
At the time, the credit union didn't know what the fraud was related to,...
This is a copy of a letter sent by the Bank of Fayetteville, Fayetteville, AR to a debit card customer on January 22. The bank sent the letter to inform the customer that the debit card may have been among those that were compromised as a result of confirmed unauthorized access to Heartland Payment Systems.
Exactly one week after the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) breach was first announced to the public, the first lawsuit has been filed against the payments processor.
The class action lawsuit filed Tuesday by Chimicles & Tilellis LLP of Haverford, PA in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey on...
Who will investigate the Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) data breach?
As a non-banking financial services entity, Heartland falls under the auspices of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). So far, the FTC is mum on the case. "Our policies keep us from either confirming or denying a non-public investigation," says...
The Heartland Payment Systems data breach - it's the first major security incident of 2009. But how big is it really? What are the key takeaways for banking institutions left explaining this breach to their customers?
In an exclusive interview, James Van Dyke, Founder and President of Javelin Strategy & Research,...
Exactly how big was the Heartland data breach?
This is the great unanswered question since last week, when Heartland Payment Systems (HPY), a Princeton, NJ-based credit card processor, revealed that its computer systems had been breached, and an unknown number of credit card account numbers were exposed to...
There are at least six institutions so far that have found out their customers' credit or debit cards could have been compromised as part of the Heartland Payment Systems breach.
Heartland (HPY), the sixth-largest payments processor in the U.S., announced earlier this week that its processing systems were breached...
Heartland Payment Systems, the sixth-largest payments processor in the U.S., announced Monday that its processing systems were breached in 2008, exposing an undetermined number of consumers to potential fraud.
Meanwhile, Forcht Bank, one of the 10 largest banks in Kentucky, told its customers it would begin...
Reported data breaches increased by nearly half in 2008, and 12 percent of the total hacks were at financial institutions - up from 7 percent in 2007.
This is the news from the Identity Theft Resource Center's (ITRC) 2008 breach report, which shows that 2008's 656 reported breaches were up 47 percent over 2007's...
Check fraud. Crimes against children and the elderly. These are among the current faces of Identity Theft, and experts expect to see even more of these opportunistic crimes in 2009.
To help prevent these crimes - and to help banking institutions to protect their customers - Linda Foley, founder of the Identity...
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