Heartland Payment Systems has announced plans to switch to end-to-end encryption for payment transactions.

"The company, which handles more than 4 billion transactions annually for more than 250,000 merchants, will be using Thales nShield Connect hardware security module along with Voltage Security's SecureData encryption software as the basis of this capability," writes Computerworld's Joab Jackson.

"With this new system, Heartland will offer merchants the capability to encrypt cards so the merchant themselves will not house the card numbers on their systems at all," Jackson writes.

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