January 19,2009: The Heartland breach

The Heartland Payment Systems data breach may be the biggest of all time, as intruders were able to infiltrate the network to capture credit and debit card numbers as they traversed from point-of-sale to process. Encryption expert Matt Pauker examines what went wrong to allow this.
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