Week 10 – Chick-fil-A facing potential breach

Chick-Fil-A might be facing a credit card breach as well. More specifically, “Several financial institutions informed Chick-fil-A that various patterns of credit card fraud were being linked back to consumers that used accounts to purchase food at one of their restaurant locations, reports Gizmodo. Since then the chain claims it has been working with federal law enforcement and ‘top IT firms’ to investigate the issue that has affected at least 9,000 individuals” (FOX News, 2015). I see an ongoing issue of attacks that just seem to be getting worse.

Interestingly enough, “On Jan. 2, Chick-fil-A issued a cautious statement about a ‘potential’ data breach but wants to assure customers that if ‘a breach has occurred, customers will not be liable for any fraudulent charges to their accounts --- any fraudulent charges will be the responsibility of either Chick-fil-A or the bank that issued the card.’ In the event of breach confirmation, the chain says it will offer free identity protection services to affected individuals including credit monitoring” (FOX News, 2015). It seems that perhaps we need more and more IT Security professionals out there to investigate the issues at hand. I wonder how many companies are actually utilizing security audits. I think this is probably something that companies should consider in order to try and lower these types of attacks. We need more proactive approaches to Information Security.

           

Reference

FOX News. (2015, January 5). Chick-Fil-A investigating possible credit card breach of over 9,000 customers. Retrieved from FOX News: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/01/05/chick-fil-investigating-possible-credit-card-breach-over-000-customers/