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[ExtremeTech] Pizza Hut Suffers Security Breach, Waits Two Weeks to Tell People

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Pizza Hut customers who were defrauded in the past two weeks by false credit card usage can thank the (popular?) pizza chain for the privilege. The company was hacked on October 1st and 2nd, but waited nearly two weeks to inform customers that their private data had been compromised. The company finally began notifying users on Saturday.

The breach appears to have been total, with hackers making off with names, billing zip codes, delivery addresses, credit card numbers, CVN numbers, and email addresses-everything you'd need, in other words, to help yourself to someone else's data and personal information. Anyone who ordered a pizza via Pizza Hut's mobile app on October 1 or October 2 was potentially affected.
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Around sixty thousand people affected.
 
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Originally Posted by Zen00 View Post

An "average" reaction time, considering the performance of some companies. >_>

On the opposite side, I should mention that Disqus had a problem, and they sent out email resets and notification in 24 hours (about 3x faster than the gold standard for responses).
disque sent me an email but i never used it ; do i have to worry?
 
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Originally Posted by PostalTwinkie View Post

PizzaHut is still in business?
Thriving actually.
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Who knew!? People enjoy poor-quality food!
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I tend to make the joke that Pizza Hut is the McDonald's of Pizza shops.
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Originally Posted by Imglidinhere View Post

Thriving actually.
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Who knew!? People enjoy poor-quality food!
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I tend to make the joke that Pizza Hut is the McDonald's of Pizza shops.
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completely disagree. Little Ceasars is for sure the Mcdonalds of pizza. complete and utter GARBAGE pizza.
Luckily in my area we've got a local owned pizza shop that makes absolutely amazing pizza, followed by pizza hut, which makes pretty damn good pizza aswell imo, above and beyond anything little ceasars can do with their 5 dollar large pizza BS.
 
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Originally Posted by spinFX View Post

2 weeks to let people know. That is simply pathetic, everyone in their IT dept involved in this delay should be immediately sacked for incompetency.
Then who's going to finish them leftover pizzas?
 
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Originally Posted by _02 View Post

The degree to which we're being taken for a ride is hilarious, and that's also sad.

Pizza hut is at least better than Papa John's. Dominos is ok too. I've had local pizza's that were less tasty than either of those.

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Eh between those 3, I'll go with Domino's. Papa Johns a distant 2nd, but still better than Pizza Hut.

Unless Pizza Hut has stepped up it's game since then, I have not had one since 2011-2012. It was terrible.
 
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Originally Posted by Sir Beregond View Post

Eh between those 3, I'll go with Domino's. Papa Johns a distant 2nd, but still better than Pizza Hut.

Unless Pizza Hut has stepped up it's game since then, I have not had one since 2011-2012. It was terrible.
Completely agree, down to the last time I had Pizza Hut. (though I have no Papa Johns... Papa Murphy's, if that counts, though)
 
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Originally Posted by NoDestiny View Post

Completely agree, down to the last time I had Pizza Hut. (though I have no Papa Johns... Papa Murphy's, if that counts, though)
You're not missing much by not having a Papa Johns
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I'm pretty desensitized to these announcements anymore. I know I should care, but it has become so common-place and nothing is being done to reprimand their actions. I feel like this is just the bank crisis of the mid 2000's reincarnate. Only thing left is how much this is going to cost the consumer to fix their ineptitude.
 
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