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June 4, 2016 10:00 pm

CiCi's Pizza May Have Been Hacked

An anonymous reader writes:Security expert Brian Krebs says more than half a dozen financial institutions contacted him, "all asking if I had any information about a possible credit card breach. Every one of these banking industry sources said the same thing: They'd detected a pattern of fraud on cards that all had one thing in common: They'd all been used in the last few months at various CiCi's Pizza locations... The data available so far suggests that hackers obtained access to card data at affected restaurants by posing as technical support specialists for the company's point-of-sale provider, and that multiple other retailers have been targeted by this same cybercrime gang." The pizza chain referred Krebs to an outside firm managing their restaurants, who referred him to an outside PR firm, so he eventually just contacted the chain's point-of-sale provider, Datapoint. They confirmed that the Secret Service was investigating several different point-of-sale vendors in "one particular franchise... All of these attacks have been traced to social engineering/Team Viewer breaches because stores from several POS vendors let supposed techs in to conduct 'support'."

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