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The fast-food chain PDQ is telling its customers their payment card information may have been compromised for up to a year due to a point-of-sale data breach.
The Tampa-based chicken restaurant chain reported that between April 20, 2017 and May 19, 2018 payment card information was vulnerable due to malware being inserted into PDQ's system, possibly through a third-party vendor. The information exposed includes some or all of the following: names, credit card numbers, expiration dates, and cardholder verification value.
On June 8 it was discovered that some of the exposed information had in fact been taken and used by an unauthorized party. The company does not know how many customers were affected, but it is suggesting that anyone who used a payment card at a PDQ should keep an eye on the account to ensure it is not being used illegally.
Source: https://www.scmagazine.com/hackers-get-into-pdqs-hen-house-swipe-credit-card-data/article/775798/
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 05 2018, @11:10AM
Tampa-based restaurant chains may even use some offline POS [quoracdn.net] - mechanical and sturdy, the infor on the transaction can be scanned and OCR-ed later.
And those fields of the database are required!
(grin)