330+ Banks Impacted by Heartland Breach as Numbers Climb

Heartland Data Breach: More Than 330 Institutions Impacted

Bermuda, Canada and Guam Now Report Effects from Breach

Bank Info Security is reporting that more than 330 Financial Institutions have reported that they are being impacted by the Heartland Payments Systems Data Breach.

From their site:

"The Heartland Payment Systems [HPY] data breach is the first major information security incident of 2009. As first reported on Jan. 20, Heartland, the sixth-largest payments processor in the U.S., revealed that its processing systems were breached in 2008, exposing an undetermined number of consumers to potential fraud. Since then, a growing number of banking institutions have stepped forward to announce that their customers were among those affected by the breach."

 see a full list of all the affected institutions, click here

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