Processing Company and Banks will come after you

Park City restaurant POS system is hacked, some 8,000 customers cards are compromised which leads to $1.26 Million in fraud. Now this ski town couple who have owned their restaurant since 1985 are in a battle with their processing company and US Bank for who owes what to Visa and MC for not following PCI guidelines.

READ ABOUT IT HERE: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-09/park-city-eatery-balks-at-credit-card-fines-in-rare-court-fight.html

Major Hack and 100,000 cards compromised

Hackers target an Austin-based global security firm, stealing the credit card information of thousands of users, making unauthorized charitable donations, and posting the data online.

Business owners

Here is a reason your employees should not be handling credit cards. Readers, this has nothing to do with your credit cards being compromised. This is just another reason business owners should be cautious of employees handling credit/debit cards.

READ ABOUT IT HERE: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2012/jan/04/naples-dairy-queen-employee-accused-of-a-of-card/

Why skim when a server can just take your card

This server didn't just take the customers card and skim it, the server handed it to their accomplice that took the card to stores nearby and ran up thousands of dollars in an hour. This is just another reason not to let your card out of your site or your hand.

POS System Security Breach

I don’t think that we can stress it enough. If your POS system is not set up to be PCI compliant the chance of a breach by an outside hacker increases dramatically. For instance, these Subway locations did not have proper security set up an over 80,000 customers cards were compromised.

READ HERE: http://www.scmagazineuk.com/subway-hackers-used-freely-available-tools-and-sold-data-via-a-file-transfer-site/article/221430/

Skimming

Skimming made some of the biggest headlines this year, all of which could have been avoided with proper PCI compliance and not allowing the costumers card to leave their and. Here is one more story about an 18 year old boy caught for skimming cards in Arizona.

http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_central_southern_az/yuma/man-arrested-for-skimming-credit-cards

Dine Fraud Free

The article below discusses training as a valuable way to reduce the risk of your servers skimming customer's credit cards. We agree 100%, but, adding the Dine Fraud Free program to your establishment will reduce this risk even more. Contact us today to find out how this program will reduce your risk and save you money. (877)271-0707

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