http://www.csoonline.com/article/2928928/disaster-recovery/heartland-issues-breach-notification-letters-after-computer-theft.html
By Steve Ragan
Salted Hash
CSO Online
June 1, 2015
In a letter to the California Attorney General, Heartland Payment Systems
has disclosed a data breach impacting personal information. The letter
states that the data exposure is the result of a break-in at one of their
offices, which included stolen computers.
The notification letter says that the theft took place at Heartland's
Santa Ana, California offices on May 8. The incident involved the theft of
many items including password protected computers that might have
contained Social Security Numbers and / or banking information that is
processed by employers.
"We have seen no evidence suggesting that the data has been accessed on
the stolen computers or used in any way, and we have no reason to believe
any such use will occur. We have involved state and federal regulatory and
law enforcement agencies to assist us in determining how to proceed with
the matter at hand," the notification letter states.
In 2008 Heartland was the victim of one of the world's first major data
breaches that exposed 130 million U.S. credit and debit cards.
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