Global Payments

Disclosed Mar 30, 20121,500,000 affectedConfirmed

Card processor says up to 1.5 million card numbers may have been exported

Global Payments self-reported unauthorized access to its processing system and said fewer than 1.5 million card numbers, with Track 2 data, may have been exported from its North American systems; names, addresses and SSNs were not obtained.

What is known

People affected	1,500,000 (as reported by the organization)
Disclosed	Mar 30, 2012
Attack	Hacking
Data exposed	Payment cards
Sector	Finance · US
Status	Confirmed

Sources

Official noticeoag.ca.gov

California Attorney General breach notice: Global Payments

SEC filingsec.gov

Global Payments April 1, 2012 press release (8-K exhibit)

Notices filed

TotalMar 30, 2012

Research1,500,000 people

Residents of CAJul 3, 2012

California AGCount not stated

History of this record

sector2026-09-25

tech to financeby seedSource

attack2026-09-25

unknown to hackingby seedSource

data_types2026-09-25

[] to ["payment-card"]by seedSource

records_basis2026-09-25

empty to organizationby seedSource

records2026-09-25

empty to 1500000by seedSource

disclosed2026-09-25

2012-07-03 to 2012-03-30by seedSource

summary2026-09-25

empty to Global Payments self-reported unauthorized access to its processing system and said fewer than 1.5 million card numbers, with Track 2 data, may have been exported from its North American systems; names, addresses and SSNs were not obtained.by seedSource

title2026-09-25

empty to Card processor says up to 1.5 million card numbers may have been exportedby seedSource

Added2026-09-25

First recordedby backfillSource

First seen 2026-09-25 (California AG), confirmed by California AG. Record counts are as reported. Not legal advice.

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