Once a distant threat, something that merchants would not experience until there was a breach, non-PCI compliant fees now become a reality. A growing number of merchant service providers add those fees to merchants’ monthly bills before any cardholder data was compromised.
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The PA-DSS Deadline has Passed…Now What?
So, July 1, 2010 passed. Any company that accepts gift, debit, or credit cards on their web site now must use PA-DSS compliant payment applications (a shopping cart is one such application) or face non-compliance fines, warnings from their merchant account provider, and even a possibility to lose the ability to process card payments if the card data is compromised.