What is a Data Compromise?
A. Data compromise is an incident involving the electronic or physical breach of cardholder data through the communication and/or information processing of the merchant/third party. Electronic breaches include data vulnerability in transit and storage, attacks via web sites or servers, private key mismanagement, access related to user ID or password, and administrative network performance problems. Physical breaches include theft of documents or equipment such as receipts, files, PCs, or POS terminals.
A data compromise is an incident involving the breach of a system or network environment where cardholder data is processed, stored or transmitted.A data compromise can also involve the suspected or confirmed loss or theft of any material or records that contain cardholder data.A data compromise event and the fraud occurring as a result of the event may have far-reaching consequences for affected businesses.
Incidents involving electronic or physical breach of cardholder data through the communication and/or information processing of the merchant/third party: Electronic: Data vulnerability in transit and storage, attacks via web sites or servers, private key mismanagement, access related to user ID/password and administrative network performance problems. Physical: Physical breach may include theft of documents or equipment (e.g.
A data compromise is an incident involving the electronic or physical breach of cardholder data through the communication and/or information processing of the merchant/third party. Electronic breaches include data vulnerability in transit and storage; attacks via websites or servers, private key mismanagement, access related to user ID or password, and administrative network performance problems. Physical breaches include theft of documents or equipment such as receipts, files, PCs, or POS terminals. Skimming breaches are actually a hybrid of both a physical and electronic breach as the perpetrator takes possession of the card, steals the magnetic stripe data and returns the card to the cardholder.
