Hackers Want Extra Cheese...From Your Payment Card

Pizza lovers are once again victims of a data breach. Pizza Hut customers join CiCi’s Pizza lovers in the unfortunate fate of being victims of a security breach. Pizza Hut emailed letters to those hungry customers that it believes were victims of the breach, which occurred over a 28-hour period earlier this month. If you ordered pizza online from the company, you may be one of 60,000 others who have had information stolen.

Information that is believed to have been accessed includes payment card numbers, expiration dates, the CVV code from the back of the cards, names, delivery addresses, and even email addresses. If you ordered pizza online from Pizza Hut from October 1-2, 2017, be sure to check your card statements carefully for fraudulent or suspicious charges. Typically, there is a limited amount of time that these can be reported to the card issuing institution and limit your liability.

Always review payment card charges for suspicious activity. If possible, do this more often than once per month. Online access makes this task quite efficient. However, if you are passing any sensitive or confidential information through the Internet, such as payment card numbers, do this using a connection that is secure. Avoid using public WiFi. Even if these connections require passwords, it does not mean they are safe to use when doing these types of transactions.

In fact, a flaw was recently discovered (the WPA2 flaw called KRACK) that could allow an attacker to intercept those transactions using WiFi, public or otherwise. If those WiFi spots have not been updated, you are putting your information at risk of attack.

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