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PCI Validated P2PE – 3 Years in North America, What Has Changed?

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In 2016, there were 1,093 data breaches according to the Identity Theft Resource Center – a 40% increase over the 2015 data breach number of 781. Malware was the culprit in the multi-million-dollar Home Depot, Target, Wendy’s and PF Chang’s breaches. Malware and its Role in Data Breaches.