Global Payments Breach May Have Exposed up to 10 Million Cards in Massive Payment Data Breach

As previously reported on ePayment News, Security blogger Brian Krebs broke a story earlier today alerting readers that Visa and MasterCard are alerting banks about a massive data breach (Mr. Krebs reported up to 10 Million cardholder may be compromised) at what was then an unnamed third party U.S. processor.  

First thought that came to mind was Heartland Payment Systems, not because I believed it was them, but they were involved in the last massive security breach.  Since I don't believe that lightning would strike twice, I started thinking whom this 3rd party processor might be.  First Data? Bain Capital's WorldPay? (formerly RBS) Global Payments?  Bingo!

ePayment News has learned that the culprit in this massive security breach is in fact, Atlanta based Global Payments, who have yet to make an official statement from their headquarters.

Mr. Krebs has stated that Global Payments is expected to issue a statement today.

Stay tuned...