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Another fast-food hack, this time at Checkers and Rally’s restaurants

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Checkers Drive-In Restaurants says hackers compromised payment machines at more than 100 of the fast-food company’s locations, providing the latest example of how buying a drive-through cheeseburger can come with the risk of a data breach. Point-of-sale malware was lurking at 102 of Checkers and Rally’s locations in 20 states, the Florida-based company said in a bulletin Wednesday. Thieves collected data stored on magnetic card strips, including cardholders names, payment card numbers, card verification codes and expiration dates — everything they would need to steal to conduct their own transactions or re-sell that data on cybercriminal forums. The exposure period for many of the affected stores ended in April, though some locations were vulnerable dating back to 2016 or 2015, in the case of one California restaurant. The company did not specify the number of customers affected. Checkers didn’t offer many details about the hack, but the almost non-stop breach disclosures from similar […]

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Checkers restaurant chain warns customers that hackers have their credit cards

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Eating “crazy good” comes at a cost. Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, which runs one of the largest chains of drive-thru restaurants in the US under the slogan “crazy good food,” has warned customers that hackers made off with the… Continue reading Checkers restaurant chain warns customers that hackers have their credit cards→

Checkers Says Data Breach Affected 100+ Locations

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Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. revealed that a data breach possibly affected customers at more than 100 of its Checkers and Rally’s locations. Adam Noyes, chief administrative officer and executive vice president at Checkers Drive-In Restaur… Continue reading Checkers Says Data Breach Affected 100+ Locations→

Interactive Board Prompts Moves for Checkers and Chess

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In terms of equipment, chess and checkers are simple games — just a handful of pieces and a checkered gameboard. The simplicity belies the underlying complexity of the games, though, and goes a long way toward explaining their popularity over the millennia.

Increasing the complexity with an interactive game board for chess and checkers might seem counterintuitive, then. But [Bogdan Berg]’s project aims to not only teach checkers and chess but to make games a little more exciting and engaging. Looking a little like a tabletop version of the interactive dance floors we’ve been seeing a lot of lately, the …read more

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Interactive Board Prompts Moves for Checkers and Chess

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In terms of equipment, chess and checkers are simple games — just a handful of pieces and a checkered gameboard. The simplicity belies the underlying complexity of the games, though, and goes a long way toward explaining their popularity over the millennia.

Increasing the complexity with an interactive game board for chess and checkers might seem counterintuitive, then. But [Bogdan Berg]’s project aims to not only teach checkers and chess but to make games a little more exciting and engaging. Looking a little like a tabletop version of the interactive dance floors we’ve been seeing a lot of lately, the …read more

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