http://www.bankinfosecurity.com/retail-breach-hits-hawaii-restaurants-a-5910
By Tracy Kitten
Bank Info Security
July 15, 2013
The Honolulu-based upscale restaurant chain Roy's says malware that
infected a corporate PC likely infiltrated its network and may have
exposed card data.
Roy's Holdings Inc., which owns and manages six Roy's restaurants in
Hawaii, on July 5 confirmed that the compromise of one employee's desktop
PC may have exposed debit and credit card information related to
transactions conducted at five of its locations Feb. 1-25.
Roy's did not estimate the number of cards that may have been affected by
the breach.
Merchant breaches are a big fraud worry for card issuers. Preliminary
results from the 2013 Faces of Fraud Survey show that banks and credit
unions blame merchant breaches, often linked to malware attacks, and
card-not-present compromises for the majority of the card-related fraud
losses they suffered in the last year.
But some experts say the details the restaurant chain has released so far
suggest forensics investigations into retail breaches are improving.
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