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Dixons fined £500,000 by ICO for crap security that exposed 5.6 million customers' payment cards
2020-01-09 18:15

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.

Researcher Spots New Tricks in Web Payment Card Skimmers
2020-01-03 14:03

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.

Landry's Discloses Payment Card Incident
2020-01-03 13:23

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 Restaurant Chain Suffers Payment Card Theft Via PoS Malware
2020-01-02 12:13

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.

Over 50 Islands Restaurants Hit by Payment Card Breach
2019-12-23 12:32

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 Data Breach: Malware Stole Customer Payment Card Info
2019-12-20 15:55

Wawa said that payment-processing system malware had potentially affected all 850 of its locations.

Hackers Stole Customers' Payment Card Details From Over 700 Wawa Stores
2019-12-20 02:05

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...

Joker's Stash Advertises More Stolen Payment Card Data
2019-11-27 18:48

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...

New 'Ginp' Android Trojan Targets Credentials, Payment Card Data
2019-11-26 11:48

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

Church's Chicken Restaurants Hit by Payment Card Breach
2019-11-25 13:19

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...