Heartland — the breach scale continues
Heartland Payment Systems disclosed a breach this week affecting 130 million payment cards. The structural pattern from TJX continues; specific lessons reinforce.
TJX and the breach-disclosure trajectory
TJX has disclosed a breach affecting payment-card and personal data for tens of millions of customers. The cumulative breach-disclosure trajectory continues to scale.
CardSystems and the cumulative breach pattern
CardSystems Solutions has disclosed exposure of approximately 40 million payment-card records. The structural lesson is that the data-breach disclosure trajectory continues to scale.
ChoicePoint and the data-breach disclosure trajectory
ChoicePoint disclosed a breach affecting 145,000 individuals — driven by California's SB 1386 disclosure law. The structural change is the disclosure regime, not the breach itself.