US Huddle House 2018 Malware Attack (Q15378)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | US Huddle House 2018 Malware Attack |
A data breach risk event |
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January 2018
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Huddle House has become the latest US restaurant chain to suffer a Point of Sale (POS)-related data breach. The casual dining and fast food operation revealed on Friday that a malware intrusion had affected an unspecified number of its corporate and franchised locations. Criminals compromised a third-party POS vendors data system and utilized the vendors assistance tools to gain remote access and the ability to deploy malware to some Huddle House corporate and franchisee POS systems, it said in a notice. Huddle House was notified by a law enforcement agency and its credit card processor that some of its corporate and franchise locations may have been victims of a malicious cyber-attack. Huddle House retained a leading IT investigation and security firm in less than 24 hours from notificat (English)
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