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Article: Heartland Completes First Test of Encryption System.(Cards)
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- American Banker
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- July 1, 2009
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Byline: Daniel Wolfe
Heartland Payment Systems Inc. has completed the first test of an end-to-end encryption system designed to protect the cardholder data it handles from hackers.
The Princeton, N.J., processor, which disclosed a major breach in January, said Tuesday that it had run transactions from all four major card brands on the E3 system. However, the networks - Visa Inc., MasterCard Inc., American Express Co. and Discover Financial Services - do not accept encrypted data from Heartland, so it had to decrypt the data to complete the transactions.
Heartland said more than one of the card brands should be set up to handle encrypted data in ...