{"id":56593,"date":"2017-03-09T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=56593"},"modified":"2017-03-09T11:47:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T17:47:24","slug":"verifone-downplaying-breach-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/verifone-downplaying-breach-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Verifone Downplaying Breach Impacts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Payment Processing Giant Breached<\/h4>\n<p>Verifone, a major player in the payment processing industry, recently suffered a data breach. \u00a0The breach took place in January of 2017. \u00a0In initial reports, the company stated the impact of the breach was minimal, and effected internal company systems only. \u00a0Meaning none of their Point of Sales (PoS) systems were impacted. \u00a0Unfortunately, that was not the case. \u00a0After further investigation, Verifone updated their comments to <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2017\/03\/payments-giant-verifone-investigating-breach\/\">Krebs on Security<\/a> to state,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;According to the forensic information to-date, the cyber attempt was limited to controllers at approximately two dozen gas stations, and occurred over a short time frame. We believe that no other merchants were targeted and the integrity of our networks and merchants\u2019 payment terminals remain secure and fully operational.<strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Downplaying Breach Effects<\/h4>\n<p>Although there are concerns the payment processing giant may be downplaying the impact of the security breach, all accounts show Verifone took appropriate measures upon discovering the security issue. \u00a0According to <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2017\/03\/payments-giant-verifone-investigating-breach\/\">Krebs on Security<\/a>, on January 23, 2017, Verifone contacted all of their staff, as well as contractors stating they had 24 hours to change their passwords. \u00a0The company has also informed all employees they are no longer authorized to install any software on company devices &#8212; desktops and laptops included. \u00a0It is Verifone&#8217;s hope, by mitigating the software installed on company devices they will mitigate their security risks as well.<\/p>\n<p>The company continues to investigate the matter to ensure no other PoS systems were impacted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payment Processing Giant Breached Verifone, a major player in the payment processing industry, recently suffered a data breach. \u00a0The breach took place in January of 2017. \u00a0In initial reports, the company stated the impact of the breach was minimal, and effected internal company systems only. \u00a0Meaning none of their Point of Sales (PoS) systems were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":55127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[183],"tags":[450,5192],"class_list":["post-56593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips","tag-security-breach","tag-verifone"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Verifone Downplaying Breach Impacts?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Major player in the payment processing field, Verifone, was recently breached. 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