PRINCETON N.J. Heartland Payment Systems – the card payment processing company that serves approximately 60,000 restaurants nationwide and earlier this year discovered it had been hacked by data thieves – said it has successfully validated its compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards.
The Princeton-based processor, which has said that no client restaurant would be liable for costs associated with the breach of its systems, noted that the achievement means it will be added back to Visa’s list of PCI DSS Validated Service Providers on May 4. That list can be accessed online at www.visa.com/cis.
Visa’s removal of Heartland from that list earlier this year created business problems for the processor. Heartland said that some competitors tried to steal existing customers and intercept potential new users by telling them falsely that merchants who use a processor not on the Visa list would be automatically subject to Visa-levied penalties.
To clarify the situation, Visa, on March 23, issued a statement that read, in part, that the “PCI DSS compliance status of Heartland” would “not cause otherwise compliant merchants to be subject to noncompliance fine assessment if all other standing PCI DSS validation requirements have been satisfied.”
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