According to this study, more than 63% of businesses do not encrypt the account numbers of payment cards. Isn't it a true hacker heaven?
During its 2014 study, PANscan scanned 145,144 gigs of data on 2,590 computers and found:
* A total of 87,206,203 unencrypted payment cards
* 63.86% of businesses store unencrypted PAN data
* 7.37% of businesses store full magnetic stripe data, including PIN, CVV, service code, expiration date, cardholder * name, and PAN.
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