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Dairy Queen the latest retailer with a Data Breach

JimKiler

JimKiler

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My state is in the news again a second time for a data breach:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davelewis/2014/08/28/dairy-queen-data-breached-with-sprinkles/

This time, Dairy Queen has found themselves the unlucky victim of a data breach with ice cream on their feet. It seems that they have joined the parade of retailers who have had their digital supply chain compromised, namely their point of sale systems by malicious software.
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Should us consumers expect more of these data breaches until retailers and their supply chains get better and protected?

And from the local newspaper The Star & Tribune:

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said that more than 1,000 U.S. retailers could be stricken with Backoff, malware — short for malicious software — discovered last October. Both United Parcel Service UPS +0.09% and Supervalu SVU +0.31% appear to have also been hit by the bug, which burrows into retail point-of-sale systems.
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Also can we get free blizzards as compensation?
 
Captante said:
Makes me think going back to paying cash as often as possible is the best bet!
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Cash is king. Things will get better once the US starts widely adopting chip & pin since the data has to be encrypted with a one time key.

A while back though, someone asked me how chip cards get skimmed when I mentioned they were. Didn't dawn on me at the time, but they still have the magnetic strip on the back of them. It's in order to be backwards compatible with the archaic swipe machines. Almost defeats the purpose.
 
mmntech said:
Cash is king. Things will get better once the US starts widely adopting chip & pin since the data has to be encrypted with a one time key.

A while back though, someone asked me how chip cards get skimmed when I mentioned they were. Didn't dawn on me at the time, but they still have the magnetic strip on the back of them. It's in order to be backwards compatible with the archaic swipe machines. Almost defeats the purpose.
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I've had a chip and pin card for about two months now. I use my credit card almost exclusively (for bonus cash, I pay the bill in full every month) and the ONLY place I've run across that uses it as a pin and chip card was Walmart. Everywhere else it is a swipe.
 
Thump553 said:
I've had a chip and pin card for about two months now. I use my credit card almost exclusively (for bonus cash, I pay the bill in full every month) and the ONLY place I've run across that uses it as a pin and chip card was Walmart. Everywhere else it is a swipe.
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We've had chip cards for about a decade now here in Canada. I can't remember the last time I had to swipe. But they remain backwards compatible for cross border shopping. Which makes them still inherently insecure. Especially at ATMs where the card needs to be inserted all the way.
 
Victorian Gray said:
I see a day when it's so unsafe to use 'plastic' we'll all go back to using cheques and cash again.
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Well if you don't use a debit card it is safe, you just have to report it if it happens to you, but you are not out any money. Debit cards on the other hand are not which i why i never use them.

MustISO said:
Good thing no one eats there...
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We eat there all the time, good burgers, good chicken wraps and the 5 buck lunch is unbeatable in price and amount of food, specially with kids to feed.
 
I was in Digby, Novia Scotia, and had some scallops at Dairy Queen. Best meal ever for around $5.

I'm surprised people use CCs at fast food places. I guess people really don't use cash that much anymore.
 
We live in an era that will be partially defined by how electronic payment transactions and it's process' are done wrong.
 
JimKiler said:
Well if you don't use a debit card it is safe, you just have to report it if it happens to you, but you are not out any money. Debit cards on the other hand are not which i why i never use them.



We eat there all the time, good burgers, good chicken wraps and the 5 buck lunch is unbeatable in price and amount of food, specially with kids to feed.
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Do we really need this BS again? Debit cards are just as safe as CC if you have a good bank. Holy crap the fud you guys like to spread.
 
mmntech said:
Cash is king. Things will get better once the US starts widely adopting chip & pin since the data has to be encrypted with a one time key.
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this! The US is so freaking far behind the developed world when it comes to credit security. It's really quite embarrassing.
 
Companies need to be held liable for this stuff. It's ridiculous how companies just don't care about security because they have insurance that covers their butt when something happens. They should not be able to have someone else take the liability, they themselves should be held liable and have their business license revoked until they fix their shit. There should be audits as well that happen regularly. This is happening way too much these days and part of the issue is companies are downsizing IT/security and just plain don't care about security. A couple angry customers who say they will never buy there again is less loss than the cost to have better security.

The problem with these security breaches is that it can ruin people's lives but yet these multi billion dollar companies whose fault it is don't get any kind of penalty for it. They can just write it off and move on.

Look at the Sony issue, they actually got hacked multiple times in a row because they did not care to fix their stuff. I bet they still did not fix it, it's just the hackers probably got sent to jail or something, or got bored.
 
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