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Apr 11th 2012, 15:29

Global Payments Inc Data Breach (Part 2 of 2)

Posted by Jorge Flores
Welcome back to part 2 of my  blog series discussing the details of the recent Global Payments data breach. Last week I went over some general details surrounding the original breach disclosure and some of the early information that was available at the time.
On an April 2nd conference call with Global Payments CEO Paul Garcia, incident details differ greatly from the original report disseminated by Brian Krebs. This conference call was closed to the press and was directed towards investors only as Q3 2012 results were also discussed.
You can listen to the full audio from the conference call here:
Global Payments Call
“The company believes that fewer than 1.5 million card numbers may have been stolen”, stated Paul.
They also believe that

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Apr 9th 2012, 12:51

Global Payments Inc Data Breach (Part 1 of 2)

Posted by Jorge Flores
You thought 2011 was the "Year of the Data Breach"?
Think again.
The Global Payments Inc data breach puts 2012 on the map in a BIG way.
So big, actually, that I had to break up this blog into a 2-part series to adequately cover all of the details.
In what has already become a solid runner-up for another “Year of the Data Breach” award, 2012 continues to deliver on the cyber crime front. Atlanta-based Global Payments Inc, one of the largest payment processors responsible for the transactions of more than 1 million merchant and business locations around the globe, has been breached. The official breach disclosure was self-reported on March 30th by Global Payments and confirmed shortly thereafter by major card brands MasterCard and Visa. Many

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