Marcia Savage has a nice write up on the Dave & Busters data breach.
From Search Security:
Three men were indicted on charges of hacking into computer systems at 11 Dave & Buster’s restaurants and stealing credit and debit card numbers.
The 27-count federal indictment unsealed Monday in New York charges Maksym Yastremskiy of Kharkov, Ukraine, and Aleksandr Suvorov of Estonia with wire fraud, computer fraud, aggravated identity theft, and other crimes in connection with the scam, which occurred last year. Turkish officials arrested Yastremskiy last July and German authorities arrested Suvorov in March. The third suspect, Albert Gonzalez of Miami, was arrested this month on one count of wire fraud conspiracy.
The indictment alleges that the trio schemed to break into cash register terminals at various locations of the Dallas-based restaurant chain between April 30 and Sept. 22, 2007. They are accused of stealing credit and debit card Track 2 magnetic stripe data and selling it to others who used it to make fraudulent purchases. Track 2 data includes the customer’s account number, expiration data and security code.
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