Heartland Payment Systems and RBS WorldPay no longer PCI compliant

Visa has taken sanctions against two payment processors, and removed Heartland Payment System and RBS WorldPay from its list of processors certified under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard as they had disclosed exposing cardholder information to hackers in recent months.

However, Heartland reports that it continues to process Visa transaction as it works to restore its PCI certification, expecting to achieve that by May. Heartland says it has not been sanctioned by MasterCard. RBS WorldPay intends to restore its PCI certification by April. 

In January Heartland unveiled that criminals had inserted malware into the computer systems that could have allowed cheaters to gain access to the numbers and expiration dates of the customers’ credit cards, but the company didn’t disclose the number of cards undergone the data breach in 2008. As for RBS, it reported 1.5 million cards may have been exposed in the attack on its system disclosed in December.