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Chipotle Says Hackers Hit Most Restaurants in Data Breach

posted by n1 on Tuesday May 30 2017, @01:50AM   Printer-friendly
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mrpg writes:

Hackers used malware to steal customer payment data from most of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc's (CMG.N) restaurants over a span of three weeks, the company said on Friday, adding to woes at the chain whose sales had just started recovering from a string of food safety lapses in 2015.

Chipotle said it did not know how many payment cards or customers were affected by the breach that struck most of its roughly 2,250 restaurants for varying amounts of time between March 24 and April 18, spokesman Chris Arnold said via email.

A handful of Canadian restaurants were also hit in the breach, which the company first disclosed on April 25.

Source: Reuters

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday May 30 2017, @05:57PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Tuesday May 30 2017, @05:57PM (#517797) Journal

    > Chip and pin, is implemented in the US is a failure.

    I'm under the impression that in the United States, chip and signature is more common.

    As of 2015, Chip and Signature cards are more common in the USA, Mexico, parts of South America (such as Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela) and some Asian countries (such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore, and Indonesia), whereas Chip and PIN cards are more common in most European countries (e.g., the UK, Ireland, France, Finland and the Netherlands) as well as in India, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

    -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV#Chip_and_PIN_versus_chip_and_signature [wikipedia.org]

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