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In one of the largest data breaches to date, Heartland Payment Company compromised the cards of over 100 million people, almost 1/3 of the U.S. population. In addition to dealing with a damaged reputation, expensive notifications and fallout, and continued lawsuits from affected banks and credit Unions, the latest hit to Heartland came from Visa.  Visa recently took action at Heartland by suspending the data breach victim and removing it from Visa’s online list of PCI-DSS compliant providers. Heartland was last certified as PCI-DSS compliant in April 2008 but in a presentation given earlier this month by two Visa executives, Visa was quoted as saying,Read More →