{"id":1658,"date":"2012-03-30T15:19:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/?p=1658"},"modified":"2012-03-30T15:19:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:19:24","slug":"data-breach-media-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/1658\/data-breach-media-disaster","title":{"rendered":"Data Breach + Media = Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a large data breach announced today by Visa and Mastercard. I think more than ever, this breach shows how dangerous the media is at blowing a story our of proportion before anyone actually know what the details are.<\/p>\n

What is known…<\/p>\n

Most likely a parking garage, or network of parking garages, suffered a data breach, most likely in the state of New York. Global Payments was most likely the processor for this business. That’s about it!<\/p>\n

Here’s what the media shows:<\/p>\n

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Point being, that some publications like to blow the proportions of a story out of the water before there’s any fact to the story. Time will tell what has actually happened and it may be a very bad situation. But, the difference between 50,000 cards as reported in the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, and 10,000,000 cards as reported in MSN’s red sheet<\/a>, is incomparable.<\/p>\n

And consumers and the government wonder why businesses don’t always come right out and tell everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was a large data breach announced today by Visa and Mastercard. I think more than ever, this breach shows how dangerous the media is at blowing a story our of proportion before anyone actually know what the details are. What is known… Most likely a parking garage, or network of parking garages, suffered a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud","category-news","category-merchantaccounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1665,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658\/revisions\/1665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}