Thursday, December 17, 2009

Heartland Pays Amex $3.6 Million Over 2008 Data Breach



By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service



PC World is reporting that AMEX is the first card brand to settle with Heartland over "last years" breach announced earlier "this year..."





Heartland Payment Systems will pay American Express $3.6 million to settle charges relating to the 2008 hacking of its payment system network.



This is the first settlement Heartland has reached with a card brand
since disclosing the incident in January of this year.




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