Major data breach hits retailer claiming to be PCI compliant

Major data breach hits retailer claiming to be PCI compliant
Tags: 3DES, Bank / Credit Union, Bank Automation, Bank Security, Components, Debit / Credit, Encrypting Pin Pads (EPP), Multifunction ATMs, North America, Regulatory Issues, Retail / Off-Premises, Security, Software, Transaction Processing, Trends / Statistics
April 3, 2008

Baseline: The major data breach affecting Hannaford Brothers grocery chain isn't record-setting in terms of the volume of records exposed — the 4.2 million records breached is dwarfed by the 94 million records exposed during the TJX breach. But the Hannaford breach is groundbreaking in its own way, because this massive security incident is the first publicly-reported exposure to hit a retailer that claims to have been certified as compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI).