CA: Mary's Pizza Shack hacked

[kirniki <kirniki () gmail com>]

http://www.sonomanews.com/articles/2010/03/18/news/doc4ba2d27e9bebb350376530.txt

The Plaza location of Mary's Pizza Shack has been identified as the
target of Internet hackers who penetrated the restaurant's computer
system with a "logger" virus that captured credit card numbers at the
transaction terminal.

The presence of a virus was discovered by a corporate official on Feb.
10 after the family-run company received reports from friends about
unauthorized credit card charges. CEO Vince Albano, grandson of Mary's
founder Mary Fazio, said the company immediately contacted the four
affected credit card companies - VISA, MasterCard, Discover and
American Express, and then hired Trustwave, a Chicago-based data
security firm recommended by the card companies.

Only credit card numbers were taken by the virus, Albano emphasized,
no personal identification information, such as Social Security
numbers or bank account records were exposed, although VISA and
MasterCard debit accounts were apparently raided. Trustwave identified
and removed the virus doing the damage on Feb. 23.

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