Customers of Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen restaurants in Arizona and 22 other states are being warned that their credit card information may have been exposed in a suspected data breach.
A total 567,000 customers are believed to be affected, but as the company is still investigating, this number may rise in the future.
On August 16, 2018, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen learned that between November 3, 2017 and January 2, 2018, an unauthorized person or persons gained access to the Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen network and were able to access and potentially obtain payment card information used to make purchases in certain Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen restaurants in Arizona, Alabama, 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.
According to the company, “the unauthorized access appears to have occurred on a network that was permanently disabled and replaced by April 10, 2018.” The affected personal information involved payment card information, including payment card numbers.