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- Hackers gained unauthorized access to credit or debit card data stored with software company CentralSquare Technologies and used for one-time water-bill payments made through the city of Pompano Beach, Fla.’s Web site from Aug. 30 to Dec. 6, 2018, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. Nearly 3,800 customers made one-time payments during that period. How much fraud, if any, has resulted from the breach wasn’t disclosed. CentralSquare is the company that now owns the Click2Gov utility-payment application that has been cited in more than 45 municipal data breaches.
- The U.S. Payments Forum launched a new Web site, getcontactless.com, to help merchants get started with contactless payments.
- In related news, the U.S. Payments Forum announced election results for its 2019 steering committee; the chairperson is Kristy Cook, director of payment acceptance technology at Target Corp.
- Credit-union processor PSCU joined the Federal Reserve’s U.S. Faster Payments Council as a founding member.
- The Electronic Transactions Association announced its “40 Under 40” group of high-achieving young payments executives; the group will be honored at the ETA’s upcoming Transact annual conference in Las Vegas.
- Low-cost airline Canada Jetlines Ltd. said U.S. Bancorp’s merchant-acquiring subsidiary Elavon is now its payment processor “of choice.”
- Shift4 Payments said its secure key-injection facility in Allentown, Pa., received certification from the PCI Security Standards Council.
- Payments provider Nuvei launched a processing service for traditional and online lending companies.
- Ratings organization J.D. Power said merchants were most satisfied with bank acquirers for their merchant services in its 2019 Merchant Services Satisfaction Study.
- The Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance said Google’s Android 7.0 and later versions of the operating system are now FIDO2 certified, meaning Web and application developers can provide biometric logins instead of passwords for authentication on more than 1 billion Android devices.
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