Equinox is working with customers, distributors, and channel partners to replace the certificates to return terminals to an operational state after all payment terminals bricked themselves. Why? Because cryptographic certificates used in the devices has expired en masse. Many merchants freaked out thinking its a grand scale hack on all their Point-of-Sale credit card readers.
Equinox completely failed to warn its customers of the impending certificate expirations. Business Resiliency experts must now prepare for mass extinction of POS devices at the manufacturer level. How’s that for a table top exercise?
It’s definitely time to replace those terminals with chip card readers. If there is a perfectly good excuse to, this is it.
