follow-up: Visa: There is No New Data Breach (fwd)

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From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>

http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=1245

By Linda McGlasson
Managing Editor
Bank Infosecurity
March 2, 2009

Heartland Payment Systems (HPY) may be the only "new" data breach, after 
all.

A week after at least two banking institutions and a state banking 
association reported a new data breach that had been announced to them by 
Visa, the credit card company now is saying that its recent alerts to card 
issuers were actually part of an existing investigation and aren't 
"related to a new compromise event."

In its statement issued on Friday, Visa says it "has provided the affected 
accounts to financial institutions so they can take steps to protect 
consumers. In addition, Visa is risk-scoring all transactions in 
real-time, helping card issuers better distinguish fraud transactions from 
legitimate ones."

Visa did not name the entity that was breached - and gave no reason for 
the continued anonymity.

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