Customers who have visited Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen restaurants may want to double check their bank accounts. Cheddar’s said over 560,000 customers in 23 states could have their credit card numbers exposed, yes that includes TEXAS!
The parent company Darden Restaurants released the following statement: “The trust our guests place in us is something we take very seriously, and we regret that this incident occurred,” We deeply value our relationships with our guests, and our priority is to assist those who may have been impacted by this incident.”
The affected states are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. GET INFO from Cheddar’s
Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen restaurants in Texas and 22 other states "may have been compromised in a cyberattack incident."
Posted by The Dallas Morning News on Friday, August 24, 2018
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