{"id":1677,"date":"2012-06-12T10:18:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2012-06-12T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:18:47","slug":"heres-why-pci-compliance-is-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/1677\/heres-why-pci-compliance-is-mandatory","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s why PCI compliance is mandatory&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an unfortunate data breach that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lompocrecord.com\/news\/local\/alleged-scam-costs-restaurant-customers\/article_ede759cc-b44e-11e1-a227-001a4bcf887a.html\">happened at a retail pizza restaurant<\/a>. The business suffered a computer hack or some sort of data breach that resulted in customer&#8217;s credit cards being compromised and used fraudulently all over the world. The real shame is that PCI-DSS has been a Visa\/MasterCard requirement for all businesses for nearly 4 years. I can\u00a0empathize\u00a0with this business but at this point there really no excuse for not taking PCI seriously. In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verizonbusiness.com\/resources\/reports\/rp_data-breach-investigations-report-2012_en_xg.pdf\">report from Verizon<\/a>, they found that\u00a0Restaurants were the most targeted business for hacking and data theft, with more than 50% of all attempts\u00a0occurring. Thieves know that restaurants and small businesses are a great and very soft target and this isn&#8217;t likely to stop. At this point, there&#8217;s no excuse for not getting PCI compliant and not taking control over your data and business security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an unfortunate data breach that happened at a retail pizza restaurant. The business suffered a computer hack or some sort of data breach that resulted in customer&#8217;s credit cards being compromised and used fraudulently all over the world. The real shame is that PCI-DSS has been a Visa\/MasterCard requirement for all businesses for nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","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=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}