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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.

Dining giant Landry's disclosed a data breach, Thursday, warning that malware had infected its order-entry systems to steal customers' payment card information. Landry's, which owns over 600 popular American restaurants across 35 states, such as Del Frisco's Grill, McCormick & Schmick's, Rainforest Café and more, said that 63 of these restaurants were impacted by malware that targeted customers' payment card data.

Although Landry's now uses end-to-end encryption within its payment system and its point-of-sale devices, it appears that some customers' payment card data was exposed as a result of the malware when waitstaff at some locations mistakenly swiped cards on terminals used to enter kitchen and bar orders, according to the company. "The payment cards potentially involved in this incident are the cards mistakenly swiped on the order-entry systems."

Landry's, a popular restaurant chain in the United States, has announced a malware attack on its point of sale systems that allowed cybercriminals to steal customers' payment card information. According to the breach notification published this week, the malware was designed to search for and likely steal sensitive customer credit card data, including credit card numbers, expiration dates, verification codes and, in some cases, cardholder names.