false 1 1 1 false false false 15 false 0 2011-06-16T22:47:27Z Hack CCN 2000-12-23 00:00:00 UTC 2009-10-02 22:31:00 UTC Organization reports incident Outside 1 11 Egghead.com 2008-07-14T22:16:59Z

Large number of credit card numbers accessed by a hacker

The problem I see is Heartland is being anything but transparent. Releasing the story on inaugural day, and stating "people aren't really at risk." What that statement seems to ignore is data pirates can and do combine artifacts assembled from disparate origin, and it would be a trove to have millions of CC to cross-match against existing partial CC stolen from elsewhere, or existing names, etc. Heartland must be compelled to release the merchant names involved, so the issue can be fully addressed by all involved, not least of which is the public who may be impacted. Finally, any data incident found by 'anomalous billing patterns' is pretty much assured to have been missed by existing method of detection, and heartland has nothing to be proud of in that area either. Visa told them, not the other way around. I want to see heartland held to a higher standard than they are attempting to hold themselves to. 2009-01-23 15:02:45 UTC

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