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posted by on Monday February 13 2017, @04:38AM   Printer-friendly
from the bad-guys-are-winning-the-arms-race dept.

Krebs on Security reports on yet another customer payment data breach:

Sources at nearly a half-dozen banks and credit unions independently reached out over the past 48 hours to inquire if I'd heard anything about a data breach at Arby's fast-food restaurants. Asked about the rumors, Arby's told KrebsOnSecurity that it recently remediated a breach involving malicious software installed on payment card systems at hundreds of its restaurant locations nationwide.

A spokesperson for Atlanta, Ga.-based Arby's said the company was first notified by industry partners in mid-January about a breach at some stores, but that it had not gone public about the incident at the request of the FBI.

"Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. (ARG) was recently provided with information that prompted it to launch an investigation of its payment card systems," the company said in a written statement provided to KrebsOnSecurity.

[...] Arby's said the breach involved malware placed on payment systems inside Arby's corporate stores, and that Arby's franchised restaurant locations were not impacted.

[...] Arby's declined to say how long the malware was thought to have stolen credit and debit card data from infected corporate payment systems. But the PSCU notice said the breach is estimated to have occurred between Oct. 25, 2016 and January 19, 2017.

Such a large alert from the card associations is generally a sign of a sizable nationwide breach, as this is likely just the first of many alerts Visa and MasterCard will send to card-issuing banks regarding accounts that were compromised in the intrusion. If history is any lesson, some financial institutions will respond by re-issuing thousands of customer cards, while other (likely larger) institutions will focus on managing fraud losses on the compromised cards.

[...] Point-of-sale malware has driven most of the major retail industry credit card breaches over the past two years, including intrusions at Target and Home Depot, as well as breaches at a slew of point-of-sale vendors. The malware sometimes is installed via hacked remote administration tools like LogMeIn; in other cases the malware is relayed via "spear-phishing" attacks that target company employees. Once the attackers have their malware loaded onto the point-of-sale devices, they can remotely capture data from each card swiped at that cash register.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @12:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 14 2017, @12:45AM (#466800)

    In case you happen to check back -- put your wallet in a front pocket. I guess I got off easy, my college GF pick-pocketed me for fun one evening, we were walking along and all of a sudden she was looking through it. I switched to the front pocket after that.

    Front pocket also avoids sitting on it, which tilts the pelvis, probably not good long term for posture(?)