Chipotle says hackers hit most restaurants in data breach

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Hackers used malware to steal customer payment data from most of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc's (CMG.N) restaurants over a span of three weeks, the company said on Friday, adding to woes at the chain whose sales had just started recovering from a string of food safety lapses in 2015.

Chipotle said it did not know how many payment cards or customers were affected by the breach that struck most of its roughly 2,250 restaurants for varying amounts of time between March 24 and April 18, spokesman Chris Arnold said via email.

A handful of Canadian restaurants were also hit in the breach, which the company first disclosed on April 25.

Stolen data included account numbers and internal verification codes. The malware has since been removed.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chipotle-cyber-idUSKBN18M2BY

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TECHNOLOGY NEWS | Fri May 26, 2017 | 9:03pm EDT
By Lisa Baertlein

[C Moon]

1. It seems like Chipotle is not well liked by someone in their industry.

I wonder what the real story is behind all of this.

[Achilleaze]

2. Yes, I always felt they suffered a Black Ops attack

back when there was a big noisy "scandal" about people getting sick from their food. Chipotle made a big PR deal about being organic and non-GMO, and the Industrial Ag & Chemical & GMO giants could not abide that. The sudden wave of food-borne illnesses that trashed the company's reputation soon followed. I saw that development as highly suspicious.

[kimbutgar]

3. The food tastes terrible

Both times I have eaten there I got sick afterwards.

[JudyM]

4. I like it. For vegetarians, it's a welcome chain when you're on the road, especially.

Eaten there in several states, many times, never felt ill afterward.

Sorry your experience wasn't as good.

[truthisfreedom]

5. I haven't been to one this year.

Whew.