NJ based credit card Processor Heartland payments has suffered data breach involving a reported loss of a lot of credit card numbers.  Heartland servers were infected by a malicious spy ware which helped the hackers to  the steal the important credit card information.

Heartland processes over 100 millions of transactions every month, However the actual loss has yet not been gauged. It has been reported that the data breach started as early as March 08.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/technology/21breach.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

In an already crumbling economy this would come as a blow to the Credit Card Industry, and would again open the debates on the security of information which was triggered by largest data breach in the history involving TJX.