If you have swiped your payment card at the popular Checkers and Rally's drive-through restaurant chains in past 2-3 years, you should immediately request your bank to block your card and notify it if you notice any suspicious transaction.
Checkers, one of the largest drive-through restaurant chains in the United States, disclosed a massive long-running data breach yesterday that affected an unknown number of customers at 103 of its Checkers and Rally's locations—nearly 15% of its restaurants.
The impacted restaurants [name, addresses and exposure dates] reside in 20 states, including Florida, California, Michigan, New York, Nevada, New Jersey, Florida, Georgia, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Alabama, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia and Virginia.
After becoming aware of a "data security issue involving malware" at some Checkers and Rally's locations, the company launched an extensive investigation which revealed that unknown hackers managed to plant malware on its point-of-sale (PoS) systems across 103 stores.
The PoS malware was designed to collect information stored on the magnetic stripe of payment cards, including cardholder's name, payment card number, card verification code, and expiration date.
However, the company pointed out that the investigation found no evidence suggesting that hackers made off with additional information belonging to the affected cardholders, and that "not all guests who visited the listed restaurants" are affected by the breach.
According to the exposure dates mention on the list of impacted restaurants:
One restaurant in California had PoS malware installed on its system in December 2015, which continually ca ..Support the originator by clicking the read the rest link below.
