Verizon has published its 2014 PCI Compliance Report, which can be downloaded from here. Like their Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) it is an excellent piece of research and provides insight into the challenges associated with complying with the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) v2.0.
Category: PCI DSS
Compliant Does Not Equal Secure.
On the 30 March Global Payments Inc. announced that it had suffered a data breach that had led to the Track 2 (i.e., the primary account number, expiration date, service code, PIN and CVV number) data of approximately 1.5 million credit cards being “exported” from its North American payment processing system.