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• Noble House Hotels & Resorts, which earlier said it had been notified by the U.S. Secret Service about a possible card-data breach at its Ocean Key Resort & Spa, said it has found through an investigation that card data may have been compromised at 11 other hotels, restaurants, and …
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Eye on Security: Malware Planted in HEI Hotels and Micros POS Systems
By Jim Daly@DTPaymentNews HEI Hotels & Resorts disclosed Friday that malware on point-of-sale systems may have captured payment card information at restaurants and other locations within 20 of its properties. At the same time, the payments industry is watching for clues about the extent of a compromise at Oracle Corp.’s …
Read More »Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Finds Malware and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Noodles & Co. reported that malware led to the compromise of an undisclosed number of customers’ credit and debit cards between Jan. 31 and June 2 at 407 locations in 27 states and the District of Columbia representing 80% of its 507 total stores; the fast-casual restaurant chain began …
Read More »Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Finds Malware and other Digital Transactions News briefs
• Noodles & Co. reported that malware led to the compromise of an undisclosed number of customers’ credit and debit cards between Jan. 31 and June 2 at 407 locations in 27 states and the District of Columbia representing 80% of its 507 total stores; the fast-casual restaurant chain began …
Read More »New POS Malware Hides in Plain Sight
Criminals have developed a new family of point-of-sale malware that hides in plain sight, riding along with core processes inside Microsoft Corp.’s Windows operating system, says Chicago-based Trustwave Holdings Inc., which uncovered the malware during a recent U.S. Secret Service investigation. Dubbed “Punkey” because of the “unkey” command within its …
Read More »Hotel Management Firm Finds Malware on Its POS Systems for the Second Time Since 2013
White Lodging Services Corp., an independent hotel-management firm, this week announced a “suspected breach” of the point-of-sale systems for the food and beverage operations in 10 hotels it manages. This incident follows a breach of the POS systems at the food and beverage locations in 14 White Lodging-managed hotels in …
Read More »Security Firm Identifies Alleged Target Malware Creator as Russian Teen
A 17-year-old Russian boy is behind the malware that has wreaked havoc at Target Corp., says IntelCrawler LLC, a Sherman Oaks, Calif.-based data-security company. In a release posted on its Web site Friday, IntelCrawler disclosed that it tracked down the alleged hacker via its own sources, including chat transcripts …
Read More »Target Talks With Attorneys General; Says Malware Was Involved in Data Breach
Target Corp. on Monday held a conference call with state attorneys general and said malware was involved in its data breach that compromised up to 40 million credit and debit card accounts. The new developments follow the discount-store chain’s disclosure Thursday of a breach in the point-of-sale system for its …
Read More »Using Malware And Skimmers, Fraudsters Harvest Card Data at Restaurant Depot, Lucky
The data-breach Grinch is stealing Christmas from a big restaurant supplier and Lucky Supermarkets, a major West Coast grocery chain, both of whose payment card acceptance systems were compromised recently by fraudsters using different techniques. The breach at Queens, N.Y.-based Restaurant Depot LLC, which also does business under the …
Read More »Security: Malware Becomes More Malicious
By Jane Adler The payments industry has made great strides in the area of security, but malicious computer code is still an ever-evolving threat to processors and merchants. For a restaurant manager, Gary Sipp knows a whole lot about malicious computer software, usually referred to …
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