The aftermath of the breach of Heartland Payment Systems card data security systems appears to have hit some of its executives in their wallets.

The payments processor, whose 2008 breach may have compromised the most card numbers ever, announced yesterday that its CEO, Robert Carr, his wife and one of the company executives were being forced to sell some of the company's stock they had placed as security for loans.

The company announced that Carr and his wife were forced to sell over 692,000 shares of the company's stock to meet obligations under a loan for which the shares were pledged as security, the company said. Heartland's chief sales officer, Sanford Brown, was also expected to have to sell stock for the same reason, the company said.

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