As you may be aware, Global Payments has acknowledged that they have incurred an unauthorized access into their system.
North American Bancard wants you to know Global Payments confirmed with us that no merchant or ISO data were compromised as a result of the breach. Global Payments believes that less than 1,500,000 card numbers may have been affected. Their investigation to date has revealed only Track 2 card data may have been stolen, but cardholder names, addresses and social security numbers were not obtained by the criminals. The company believes that this incident is contained.
“It is reassuring that our security processes detected an intrusion. It is crucial to understand that this incident does not involve our merchants or their relationships with their customers,” said Chairman and CEO Paul R. Garcia of Global Payments Inc.
