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Senator ‘Astonished” That Breach Lasted So Long…. The ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee told the chief executive of Heartland Payment Systems that she was “astonished” a breach the company’s information system lasted for nearly 1½ years without being detected. At a panel hearing Monday on protecting industry against growing [...]

Pennsylvania and 40 other states reached a $9.75 million settlement with the owner of the T.J. Maxx and Marshalls discount stores over a massive security breach that compromised consumers’ accounts, state Attorney General Tom Corbett said today. “Every time someone swiped a credit card or debit card” at a store operated by TJX Companies Inc., [...]

Image via Wikipedia MasterCard, Visa warn security breach may compromise data – USATODAY.com Visa and MasterCard have begun notifying member banks around the nation to contact patrons whose card accounts may have been compromised in the Heartland Payment Systems data breach. Robert Baldwin, Heartland’s President and CFO, said in a USA TODAY interview that Visa [...]