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Hannaford Breach Tests Limits of Security Controls

Brian Krebs writes on Security Fix:

Supermarket chain Hannaford Bros. is spending millions of dollars to upgrade its security in a bid to close the holes that allowed thieves to steal up to 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers from store networks.

The remarkable thing about this case is not that the company was hacked, despite being certified as compliant with the security rules laid out by the payment card industry, but that so few retailers and businesses who accept card data even reach the level of security Hannaford had in place prior to its breach.

posted by Fergie @ 4/23/2008 04:37:00 PM