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Friday, October 10, 2014

Dairy Queen Latest To Suffer Customer Credit Card Data Hacking

Ice cream and fast food chain Dairy Queen is the latest retailer to reveal a hack of its customer data.

The company said Thursday that hackers may have gained access to customer names, credit and debit card numbers and expiration dates at 395 stores between August and October. The company said it has fixed the malware problem.

International Dairy Queen Inc. has about 4,500 franchised stores in the U.S. It's also the parent of the Orange Julius chain, and one stand-alone Orange Julius store was breached.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Time for our government to earn their money and find these hackers then castrate them. That will put an end to this.

Anonymous said...

I am surprised the Ramadon family in OC hasn't been skimming credit card numbers to help fund their terrorist friends in their home country!

Anonymous said...

Pay cash.

Anonymous said...

7:59-Somehow I think they could easily find them.It's anyones guess why they don't.

ginn said...

Quite honestly 9:51PM I disagree with you and 7:59PM.
It is the company's that are at fault here. They are lax and uneducated in securing their networks and storage media. If they want to use the digital age for gain and profit then they should learn how it works or hire people who do know. Any company that makes money over a network has the responsibility to their customer base to be prudent with the information they've used to profit.
What I see is a company that hasn't had their system logs reviewed or audited in over 3 months. Something like that should be done DAILY, for crying out loud. While the hackers are criminals to be sure, so are the companies that allow their systems to be compromised because of lax security policy.