DisclosureLens
UnknownFinancial ServicesFinanceCustomer Data InvolvedIdentity (basic)Government IDFinancial accountMediumContained

GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC.

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

—

Filed

Jul 3, 2012

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

66%
Full breach record for GLOBAL PAYMENTS INC. →2 incidents on file

Global Payments Inc. notified individuals of potential unauthorized access to servers containing personal information of merchant applicants, including names, SSNs, and business bank account numbers. The incident is contained. No specific dates for discovery or occurrence were provided in the notice. Credit monitoring and identity protection insurance were offered.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Jul 3, 2012

Filed

No interval is drawn: no breach start or discovery date is on record for this filing.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.