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Dickey's Barbecue Pit, a restaurant franchise with 156 locations across 30 states, was hit by a malware-based, point-of-sale data breach. The details of the breach surfaced after Gemini Advisory, a cybersecurity firm, found the stolen cards on a Joker’s Stash, a hacker’s forum for stolen payment data. The data was traced back to the compromised point of purchase (CPP) — Dickey’s Barbecue Pit.

It's believed payment systems were compromised by card-stealing malware, with the highest exposure believed to be in California and Arizona. It’s believed the transactions were made with magstripe cards, and the breach could have occurred on a single central processor, according to Gemini. Reports indicate that since about mid-2019, credit card data from roughly 3 million payment cards were stolen. It's believed the +3 million credit cards stem from 35 states, spanning a time frame of over a year.

In this week's recap, Rippleshot CEO Canh Tran comments on the latest Trump Hotel breach, the Fed starts reviewing proposals for faster payments, fraud is cited for slowing mobile payments growth, a Verizon database of customer information is found wide open, and the Rippleshot blog covers a new study about consumer behavior after card not present fraud.

In this week's recap, TreasureHunt malware steals card data direct from merchant POS systems, fuel pump payments set for major disruption and overhaul by 2020, retailers take to the Fed to try and lower debit card fees, hackers breach two major law firms, and the Rippleshot blog takes on the regulatory agencies' recent foray into cybersecurity issues.

In this week's recap, payment card fraud in the UK increases 18% year over year, even with chip and PIN cards in place, interchange fees are challenged by Dick Durbin, CNBC takes a look at how retail franchisees fare when a data breach occurs, debit cards are gaining ground on cash for small purchases, and the Rippleshot blog reviews the Federal Agencies' new guidance on prepaid reloadable cards.

In this week's recap, a skimmer video you have to see to believe, equipment retailer Bailey's suffers a data breach affecting 250,000 consumers, American Express issues alert for third-party breach, The Atlantic takes everyone on the payment card spectrum to task over security concerns, and a deep dive on the latest EMV implementation struggles, five months in.

In this week's recap, an imprisoned fraud-kingpin shares some of his schemes, mobile payment adoption gets a critical eye, NJ.com takes a deep dive on ATM skimming, Home Depot settles their consumer breach, and the Rippleshot blog takes a look at gift card fraud and what merchants are doing to try and stem it (as well as a new scheme merchants should be looking out for).

In this week's recap, Brian Krebs breaks news that credit unions are seeing record levels of fraud from the Wendy's compromise, RSA President gives security industry a wake-up call, Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report gets a makeover, real-time payments in the U.S. get a closer look, and Marketing Director Kaleigh Simmons takes a look at e-commerce fraud trends and hot locations.

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In this week's recap, a recently discovered hacking group is rolling back ATM transactions to dupe banks, the White House seeks its first CISO, additional details are revealed in the DHS & FBI hack, a new survey reveals the dark future many businesses have resigned themselves to regarding breaches, and the Rippleshot team covers the increase in gas pump skimming.

In this week's recap, Neiman Marcus suffers another data breach, a new report shows the scale of breaches due to human error, another study shows the lasting repercussions organziations face after a data incident, a closer inspection is done on consumer behavior after data breaches, and team Rippleshot covers the economic of breaches - from the hackers' point of view.

In this week's issue, the FBI has warned the University Of Virginia of a data breach, fraudsters value stolen account information more so than payment card information, Wendy's is probing a potential data breach affecting its locations, a new survey shows that data breaches damage financial institutions, and for this week's Rippleshot content, we take a look at contactless payment cards and the fraud risk they currently pose.

In this week's issue, TalkTalk data breach victims are being denied compensation, a cyber-insurer is being sued over an insurance policy, TaxAct acknowledges that a data breach has occured, a casino group has sued Trustwave over a 2013 data breach, and for this week's Rippleshot content, Rippleshot CEO Canh Tran gives an update on the mobile payment platforms. 

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