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Dixons Retail is facing a £500,000 penalty from the Information Commissioner's Office after a hacker installed malware that infected thousands of point of sale tills and scooped up 5.6 million payment card details. The ICO told us that in addition to the aforementioned personal financial data, Dixons had initially found that roughly 10 million non-financial records had also been pilfered from the retailer's internal servers and exfiltrated.
A researcher has found two new methods that payment card number thieves are using to try to stay under the radar. The attackers are sometimes referred to as Magecart, a name for a slew of groups that steal payment card numbers.
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.
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.
California-based burger chain Island Restaurants recently informed customers that it had identified a piece of malware on the point-of-sale (PoS) systems used for payment card transactions at its...
Wawa said that payment-processing system malware had potentially affected all 850 of its locations.
Have you stopped at any Wawa convenience store and used your payment card to buy gas or snacks in the last nine months? If yes, your credit and debit card details may have been stolen by...
Carder Forum Listing Appears Tied to Breaches at Four Restaurant ChainsThe notorious Joker's Stash carder marketplace has a fresh listing for payment card data that appears to have been stolen...
A recently discovered Android banking Trojan that features a narrow target list and two-step overlays is capable of stealing both login credentials and credit card data, ThreatFabric reports. read more
At least 160 Church’s Chicken restaurants across 11 U.S. states are impacted by a data breach that involved unauthorized access to payment processing systems. Cajun Operating Company, which owns...