Credit Report Report

Your credit card information is one of the most alluring things to identity thieves trying to poach your identity, and in today’s digital world, it can live in a million different places. The addition of chip-and-pin technology to credit cards is one of the ways that card issuers are trying to fight current high levels of information theft. Chip-and-PIN technology has already become the standard for credit card issuers in recent years in other parts of the world with positive effects. But listen in to learn why some in the payments space have concerns about how effective the addition of chip-and-PIN can be without other supporting measures. Recent study findings from the Ponemon Institute demonstrate their growing concerns, and how approaches and responses have shifted in light of the major data breaches that occurred in 2014.