Heartland payment systems is so confident in the security of its payment processing technology that on jan 12 it announced a new breach warranty for its users. In 2009 heartland payment systems suffered what was until recently the largest data breach in recorded history at the hands of a skilled and malevolent hacker after the attack the company went . Heartland payment systems inc was a fortune 1000 us based payment processing and technology provider founded in 1997 heartland payment systems last headquarters where in princeton nj before it was bought by global payments. Heartland payment systems the sixth largest payments processor in the us announced monday that its processing systems were breached in 2008 exposing an undetermined number of consumers to . The systems penetrated by a malicious keylogger could result in a data breach that rivals the parent company of tj maxx in 2007 heartland payment systems a leading payment processing company