2.15 million payment cards have been affected by credit card breaches and malware in the US.
According to Earl Enterprises, between May 23 2018 and March 18 2019 a “data security incident” affected diners at its restaurants. The restaurants included Buca di Beppo, Planet Hollywood and Earl of Sandwich.
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The malware was designed to catch payment card data at point-of-sale. This includes credit and debit card numbers, expiration dates and cardholder names.
However, online purchases through third-parties were not involved or affected.
A statement from Earl Enterprises said: “The incident has now been contained, and Earl Enterprises is continuing to work diligently with security experts on further remediation efforts. Moving forward, the company will continue to closely monitor its systems and take additional security measures to help prevent something like this from happening again in the future.”
Card security and breaches
In October 2018, British Airways revealed that 185,000 customers’ card details were compromised in a hack.
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By GlobalDataFurthermore, the airline contacted the holders of 77,000 payment cards to warn that their details were at risk. These details included names, billing addresses, email addresses, and card payment information. In addition, 108,000 more customers were at the same risk apart from their CVV numbers.
In a statement, it said: “We are very sorry that this criminal activity has occurred. As we have been doing, we will reimburse any customers who have suffered financial losses as a direct result of the data theft and we will be offering credit rating monitoring, provided by specialists in the field, to any affected customer who is concerned about an impact to their credit rating.”
In September 2018, card skimming malware dubbed MagentoCore.net was found to have infected 7,339 individual e-commerce stores over six months. The skimming may have provided access to payment data.
Security researcher Willem de Groot scanned websites running the Magento shopping cart software.
According to de Groot, at least 1450 stores had the malware during the a six month duration. The researchers added that a minimum of 50-60 new brands were being infected over two weeks.
The MagentoCore card skimmer is said to gain access to the online store’s control panel by mainly using brute force methods such as trying multiple passwords.
