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But Baldwin said it wasn't until last week that investigators uncovered the source of the breach: A piece of malicious software planted on the company's payment processing network that recorded payment card data as it was being sent for processing to Heartland by thousands of the company's retail clients.
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Then they weren't following the requirements to be a payment processor. That data is supposed to be encrypted both at rest and in transit.