You'll be surprised to learn where most data thefts occur.
The majority of all card data theft cases occur at small retail locations including land line dial terminal merchants. How?
- Improper storage of paper receipts and reports containing cardholder data
- Improper care when handling a customer's credit card
- Improper storage of card information on computer systems in an unsecured fashion
- Improper storage of handwritten credit card information
- Improper or nonfunctioning firewalls between a physical dial terminal and another device that may be connected to the Internet
- Utilizing software that is not PCI compliant and is improperly storing cardholder data unsecurely
- The use of unsecured voice over IP communication technology