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PCI Validated P2PE – 3 Years in North America, What Has Changed?

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In 2016, there were 1,093 data breaches according to the Identity Theft Resource Center – a 40% increase over the 2015 data breach number of 781. Bluefin Payment Systems introduced the first PCI-validated Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) Solution in North America in March 2014 and was one of only 4 solutions worldwide.