Shoney’s Hit By Apparent Credit Card Breach
Summary: Financial industry sources traced a pattern of card fraud indicating an apparent breach at Shoney's, the Nashville-based chain with roughly 150 company-owned and franchised locations in 17 states, with affected sites thought to have been compromised between December 2016 and early March 2017. Shoney's did not respond to multiple requests for comment over two weeks, and after publication Best American Hospitality Corp. of Atlanta claimed responsibility for a breach impacting dozens of Shoney's locations.
Key Takeaway: Card associations sent confidential breach alerts about dozens of locations, yet it remains unclear whether the problem was limited to those sites or extended company-wide - and the exposure window ran three to four months before anyone disclosed it.
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