P.F. Chang’s Confirms Credit Card Breach
Summary: P.F. Chang's confirmed on Thursday that customer credit and debit card data was stolen in a cybercrime attack on its stores, saying it first learned of the breach on June 10. The chain said it is temporarily switching all continental U.S. restaurants to manual credit card imprinting, retaining carbon copies and deploying dial-up card readers plugged into PSTN fax lines, while investigating with the U.S. Secret Service and third-party forensics experts.
What you should know: A nationwide chain's answer to a payment breach was carbon-copy imprinters and dial-up readers on fax lines - a reminder of how little redundancy most organizations have between a working POS and no electronic payment path at all.
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