If you use any payment gateway, you need to send the full credit card number from the client so the gateway can return a token that identifies the card in their vault.
You can do the same and write some JS to get the first 6 numbers and send a GET request to our API without compromising security. The BIN (first 6 numbers of credit cards) is not considered the primary account number so it's safe to send (and even store).
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Hi, I'm David, one of the engineers at Ribbon.
If you use any payment gateway, you need to send the full credit card number from the client so the gateway can return a token that identifies the card in their vault.
You can do the same and write some JS to get the first 6 numbers and send a GET request to our API without compromising security. The BIN (first 6 numbers of credit cards) is not considered the primary account number so it's safe to send (and even store).
Can I store a BIN and associate it to a customer without breaking PCI compliance?
You're allowed to store up to the first six and last four digits of a credit card number without encryption.
https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/pci_dss_v2.pd..., PCI DSS 3.3 would seem to be the most applicable section here.