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Visa Removes Heartland, RBS Worldpay from PCI List |
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Heartland Payment Systems and RBS Worldpay have been removed from Visa Inc.'s list of PCI compliant service providers and will have to undergo new PCI assessments and reapply for inclusion on the compliance list, according to a Visa announcement.
Visa's action came after the two companies revealed they were victimized by hackers who managed to plant malicious software in the companies' internal processing systems and steal card data from the unencrypted data stream. |
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Visa Says No New Breach After All |
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In a statement issued February 27, Visa said that alerts recently sent to banks and credit unions warning them about a compromise at a payment processor were related to the ongoing investigation of a previously known breach, rather than a new incident.
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Visa Confirms Another Payment Processor Breach |
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Another payment processor has fallen victim to hackers, according to SC Magazine,a tyrade publication for IT security professionals. The magazine reported that the breach was confirmed by Visa in a conference call Feb.23, but the identity of the processor was not revealed.
Visa and MasterCard repotedly are notifying banks about accounts impacted by a "major compromise," unrelated to the massive Heartland Payment Systems incident announced last month, according to a number of credit unions and banking associations, the magazine said.
The hackers apparently breached the processor in the same way they infiltrated Heartland -- by placing malicious software on the network, according to an alert from the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association.
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Wyndham Hotels Breach Revealed |
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Hackers broke into a computer at Wyndham Hotels and Resorts last July and stole tens of thousands of customer credit card numbers, the hotel chain has warned.
The break-in occurred at a property belonging to a Wyndham franchisee, but that computer was linked to other company systems. "That intrusion enabled a hacker to use the company server to search for customer information located at other franchised and managed property sites," the company said in a statement disclosing the breach.
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$9 Million in Fraud Tied to RBS Breach |
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Approximately $9 million in ATM fraud has been linked to the RBS data breach reported in December, according to ABC News.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it has linked a Nov. 8 ATM heist to data stolen from the RBC processing unit. Thieves used cloned cards to drain millions of dollars from ATMs by making withdrawals at 130 machines in 49 cities over a half-hour, the FBI said.
The RBS WorldPay breach affected open-loop gift cards and other stpored value cards. In all, the information on 1.5 million people may have been exposed, including 1.1 million Social Security numbers. |
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