Retail Breach Hits Hawaii Restaurants

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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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