“Heartland Payment Systems Thursday reported that the security breach it disclosed earlier this year has cost the company about $12.6 million so far, including legal costs and fines from MasterCard and Visa, which directly contributed to a $2.5 million loss for the quarter. All figures are in U.S. dollars.”
“Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) on Tuesday disclosed that intruders hacked into the computers it uses to process 100 million payment card transactions per month for 175,000 merchants.”
“Bank of America completed purchase of Countrywide in July 2008. This incident appears separate from the Countrywide breach involving an employee, Rene L. Rebollo Jr., in Pasadena who was charged with selling about 2,000,000 customers’ records. In this case, approximately 4,000 customers’ records appeared to be sold.”
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