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The restaurant, casino, and entertainment company,\u00a0which owns\u00a0Landry’s Seafood,\u00a0McCormick & Schmick’s, Morton’s, and Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurants,\u00a0has received reports of unauthorized charges on credit cards of customers who had dined at its restaurants.<\/p>\n
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Description of breach:<\/strong>\u00a0Cyber attackers installed a program on payment processing devices at Landry’s locations that searched for data from the magnetic stripe of payment cards that had been swiped. Data that was obtained included cardholder name, card number, expiration date and the internal verification code. (More from Houston Business Journal.<\/a>)<\/p>\n Affected customers:<\/strong>\u00a0According to a statement from the company<\/a>, locations were affected during three distinct periods in 2015: from May 4, 2014, through March 15, 2015, and\/or from May 5, 2015, through Dec. 3, 2015. A small percent of Landry’s locations were also affected from March 16, 2015, through May 4, 2015.<\/p>\n Landry’s owns and operates more than 500 properties, including more than 40 different brands such as Landry’s Seafood, Chart House, Saltgrass Steak House, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., Claim Jumper, Morton’s The Steakhouse, McCormick & Schmick’s, Mastro’s Restaurants and Rainforest Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Announced:<\/strong>\u00a0December 2015<\/p>\n