«Although this would require
cyber criminals to target individual cards and wouldn't result in large
scale breaches or theft like we have seen in the U.S., the payment technology used won't protect against retailers who aren't storing payment card data securely, and they will still need to be vigilant in protecting stored data,» Candid Wüest, threat researcher at Symantec Security Response, said.
Strategies to date within large -
scale companies have frequently involved paying fines, relating to
cyber breaches, instead of remediating the gaps in their security.