Heartland Payment Systems Data Breach History

This page tracks the Heartland Payment Systems data breach history and cybersecurity incidents affecting Heartland Payment Systems (United States). BreachHistory currently indexes 7 publicly disclosed or catalogued incidents spanning 2009 through 2018, with approximately 260.0 million records reported as exposed across all indexed events. These totals may include overlapping datasets or third-party estimates and should not be interpreted as unique affected users.

The Heartland Payment Systems breach timeline includes major data breaches, cyber attacks, data leaks, credential exposures, API abuse, and other security incidents. Each incident provides details on the estimated records exposed, attack method, affected data types, and supporting public sources. Currently, 0 incidents are company-confirmed.

Largest Heartland Payment Systems Data Breaches

The largest indexed incidents include the 2009 Heartland — 130M cards, the 2009 Payment card breach — 130M, and the 2015 — Heartland Payment Systems: Location of breached information: Hacking/IT…, along with additional historical incidents involving exposed passwords, public databases, and large-scale data scraping. Record counts originating from threat actors or leak sites should be treated as estimates unless confirmed by Heartland Payment Systems or a regulator. Below is the list of large data breaches:

• 2009 2009 Heartland — 130M cards — about 130.0M records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2009 2009 Payment card breach — 130M — about 130.0M records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2015 2015 — Heartland Payment Systems: Location of breached information: Hacking/IT… — about 3.6K records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2018 2018 — Heartland Payment Systems: Information on this security breach is provided by… — about 2.0K records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2012 2012 — Heartland Payment Systems: Location of breached information: Theft Business… — about 1.2K records exposed · Catalogued incident
• 2017 2017 — Heartland Payment Systems: Information on this security breach is provided by… — about 55 records exposed · Catalogued incident

What Information Was Exposed?

Depending on the incident, exposed data may include payment card and financial account data, and other personal information (PII). The exact data varies between incidents, so review each breach page before assuming your information was affected.

Heartland Payment Systems Data Breach 2026

At the time of this update, no Heartland Payment Systems data breach has been catalogued for 2026. New incidents are added as official disclosures, regulatory filings, or credible cybersecurity reports become available.

What To Do If You Were Affected

If you believe your account may have been involved in a Heartland Payment Systems data breach, change any reused passwords, enable multi-factor authentication (MFA), monitor your account for suspicious activity, and be cautious of phishing emails or fake breach notifications.

This Heartland Payment Systems breach history is maintained by BreachHistory using public disclosures, regulatory filings, security research, and clearly labelled third-party claims. For the complete breach timeline, records exposed, incident details, and AI Breach Risk Score, explore the sections on this page.