Security News > 2023 > September > Data breach reveals distressing info: people who order pineapple on pizza

Pizza Hut's Australian outpost has suffered a data breach.

Yes, dear reader - that means the bad guys have seen a database of people who like pineapple on their pizzas.

Pizza Hut's Australian operation told customers it learned of the incident in early September and described it as "Unauthorized third party" access to a subset of its data.

"We secured our systems, engaged forensic and cyber security specialists and initiated an ongoing investigation to help us understand what occurred, and identify the data that was impacted," explained the Hut's Down Under CEO Phil Reed.

In 2017, Pizza Hut USA suffered "a temporary security intrusion" that saw some customers' credit card numbers leak.

A search of The Register's archives also turns up a 2016 attack on KFC's loyalty scheme, a 2023 privacy SNAFU at McDonald's South Korea that saw the burger chain fined $530,000 for storing customer data on an unsecured SMB share, unauthorized employee biometric data collection at White Castle and unnecessary customer location data harvesting at Tim Horton's.

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