SaveTable.com » News http://www.savetable.com/blog Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:16:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Little Italy Credit Card Information Stolen http://www.savetable.com/blog/random/little-italy-credit-card-information-stolen/ http://www.savetable.com/blog/random/little-italy-credit-card-information-stolen/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:46:34 +0000 Sergei S. http://www.savetable.com/blog/?p=71 Last week, police released news about thousands of credit card numbers being stolen from a retailer which they did not disclose (which I thought was ridiculous);  finally this week they have come out and said that they were all stolen from the Little Italy Restaurant on 88th street. According to the Anchorage Daily News article, an independent security firm discovered that the assailants had installed software right on the credit card terminal in the restaurant! Little Italy is a fantastic restaurant with great food and customer service, but this was a huge security over-sight on their part. How could you allow someone to be with a terminal long enough to install software on it?

My first guess would be it was someone on the inside. Someone that wouldn’t look out-of-place sitting around the terminal. This would be a shot in the dark for a customer to just walk in and do this. They would have to know the brand and model of the terminal and then have enough time install software on it, this would have to be one stealthy person if he wasn’t an employee.

Who knows, this could have been just some random person who came in for lunch one day and noticed a huge opportunity on equipment he had experience with. Either way, this could have and should have been prevented with some due diligence on Little Italy’s part.

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