Credit Card Security Breach

Thousands of VISA and Mastercard customers could be in danger of identity fraud after a data breach of Heartlands Payment Systems in Houston, Texas.

Credit card numbers, expiration dates and personal ID numbers, such as social security numbers, could now be in the hands of criminals, investigators warn.

Heartland Systems discovered last week that their systems had been breached sometime in 2008. Their system was used to process 100,000 million transactions per week for 175,000 merchants.

Heartland is not releasing any information except that thousands of restaurants, hotels and retail stores are affected.

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