Comments on: Breach Misdirection

By: Mordaxus

Mordaxus — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:08:58 +0000

Don’t get me wrong — if I were the poor schlep who had to announce this, I’d announce it during the Inauguration, too. You play the cards in your hand to the best of your ability.
However, I’m not that poor schlep, I’m a security blogger who got asked, “Did you see the Heartland breach story?” My reply was, “What Heartland breach story?” While I was watching history, someone was announcing history.

By: Tamzen

Tamzen — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:27:59 +0000

Oh joy! Does this mean I get to foresee yet another new Citicard? I think I’m up to 3 this year from various data losses.

By: Graydon McKee

Graydon McKee — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:56:54 +0000

It would stand to reason that if you are going to release information like that you would do so when the story is likely to get lost in the clutter. From a “managing the story” point of view it was probably a good move from Heartland’s perspective.