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There was a news article on the BBC website today about a man arrested for stealing 130 million credit card numbers. He along with a couple of Russian co-conspirators (unnamed), broke into several organizations such as 7Eleven, Hannaford Brothers, Heartland Payment Systems, to name a few and stole credit card numbers with the intent of selling them on.

News reports of breaches at various organizations appear with unfailing regularity. There are a bunch of standards that aim to prevent these kinds of breaches involving customer data. Even with all the standards and growing awareness about security, there seems to be no end in sight for high profile cases like the one that involved TJMaxx and Hannaford Bros.