For those of you who have frequented thee Yak & Yeti Restaurant in Disney’s Animal Kingdom over the course of a period in 2015, you will want to check your credit card statement.
Landry’s is the operator of Yak & Yeti, and they currently have an investigation taking place as to the security of credit card transactions made at their restaurants.
If you’ve eaten at Yak & Yeti’s in Animal Kingdom over the course of the dates of May 8, 2015 – Dec. 3, 2015, then make sure to look at your credit card statements. Here is some of the press release that was released by Landry’s:
Findings from the investigation show that criminal attackers were able to install a program on payment card processing devices at certain of our restaurants, food and beverage outlets, spas, entertainment destinations, and managed properties. The program was designed to search for data from the magnetic stripe of payment cards that had been swiped (cardholder name, card number, expiration date and internal verification code) as the data was being routed through affected systems.
Enhanced security measures, including end-to-end encryption, have been implemented to prevent a similar issue from occurring in the future, and we continue to support law enforcement’s investigation. We are also working closely with the payment card networks to identify potentially affected cards so that the card issuers can be made aware and initiate heightened monitoring of those accounts. For those customers we can identify as having used their card at an affected location during that location’s at-risk window and for whom we have a mailing address or e-mail address, we will be mailing them a letter or sending them an e-mail.
If you used a payment card at an affected location during its at-risk window, we recommend that you remain vigilant to the possibility of fraud by reviewing your payment card statements for any unauthorized activity. You should immediately report any unauthorized charges to your card issuer because payment card rules generally provide that cardholders are not responsible for unauthorized charges reported in a timely manner. The phone number to call is usually on the back of your payment card. Please see the section that follows this notice for additional steps you may take to protect your information.
The full press release from Landry’s can be read at this link.
Landry’s does also operate the Rainforest Cafe chain of restaurants, but the locations at Walt Disney World were not compromised. You can check out the full list of compromised restaurants across different states by checking out this link.
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