Who to Trust?
Brad Stone, a reporter with the New York Times, reports on the indictment of what is believed to be the largest single incident of credit card information theft. I say believed to be, because it appears that we really do not know what is happening out on the Internet until it is publicized. How many of you have received a new credit card in the mail without adequate explanation as to what happened to the old one that created the need for a replacement in the first place? The fact that one of the organizations that lost data is a credit card processing firm, brings up a range of ethical and legal issues about the level of accountability for organizations who claim to be selling a secure service.
Did Heartland do all that they could to prevent this breach or to mitigate the effect of it once the breach was made known to them?
Read the entire article here and check out an article from January 2009 on Heartland Payment Systems, both from the New York Times.
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