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American coffee seller Caribou Coffee recently suffered a breach exposing customer payment data at 265 U.S. stores for roughly three months, according to a notice posted to the company’s website. The retailer says an outsider had unauthorized access to point-of-sale systems at affected locations between Aug. 28 and and Dec. 3, someone had unauthorized access to its point of sale systems at affected stores. Hackers may have accessed customer names, payment card numbers, expiration dates and security codes. The company says payments made through its rewards program were not affected. Caribou says that it detected “unusual activity” on its network on Nov. 28, which prompted it to hire Mandiant, a cybersecurity incident response company owned by FireEye. Mandiant identified the issue within two days, the notice says, although customers may have been affected through Dec. 3. Caribou says it’s working to beef up its network security and its payment system in order to better protect customer information. […]

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