Security News > 2020 > January > Landry's Discloses Payment Card Incident

Houston, Texas-based dining, hospitality and gaming company Landry's revealed recently that it had discovered a piece of malware designed to steal payment card information on its systems.

Following a payment card breach that hit the company's restaurants in 2015, Landry's started using a payment processing solution that relies on end-to-end encryption to protect sensitive information on point-of-sale terminals.

Last year, cybercriminals managed to plant a piece of malware on Landry's systems in hopes of stealing payment card information.

"The malware searched for track data read from a payment card after it was swiped on the order-entry systems. In some instances, the malware only identified the part of the magnetic stripe that contained payment card information without the cardholder name," the company told customers.

Landry's joins a long list of restaurant companies that disclosed payment card breaches over the past year, including Islands Restaurants, On The Border, Church's Chicken, Catch, Focus Brands, Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Earl Enterprises, Huddle House, Chili's, Applebee's, and Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen.

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