I am not sure why Heartland and/or Chase keep saying that Social Security numbers were not breached. I had my personal information stolen in this situation and the criminals have enough information on me to not only attempt to make transactions on my current accounts, but also they have opened new accounts since 1/24/2009. To me this means that they have my name, social security number, address, birthdate and whatever else they may need to open a new account. In addition, 2 of the cards that attempted and successful charges were made on have not been used for the past, at least, 2 years. So…obviously…these companies are hiding something more because if I know I haven’t used 2 of my compromised credit cards in at least the past 2 years, how can the security breach with regards to transactions processed have happened within the past 6 months?

Thanks for catching the 999 million record typo!

The Washington Post is now reporting that the breach involves 1000 million accounts.

I think you meant 100 million. The Washington post was referring to how many transactions it processes, not how many cards may have been breached. I do think they should list all the retailers that use Heartland. Consumers will not blame the merchants. I even read a comment on the consumerist website that said Heartland didn’t even notify the merchant(s) of card breach.