CiCi’s Pizza, an American fast food business based in Coppell, suffered a credit card breach incident in June 2016.
Hackers obtained access to card data that affected restaurants by posing as technical support specialists for the company’s point-of-sale provider, and multiple other retailers have been also targeted.
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/06/banks-credit-card-breach-at-cicis-pizza/
TPRM report: https://scoringcyber.rankiteo.com/company/cicispizza
"id": "cic02531522",
"linkid": "cicispizza",
"type": "Breach",
"date": "06/2016",
"severity": "100",
"impact": "6",
"explanation": "Attack threatening the economy of a geographical region"
{'affected_entities': [{'industry': 'Fast Food',
'location': 'Coppell, Texas',
'name': 'CiCi’s Pizza',
'type': 'Organization'}],
'attack_vector': 'Social Engineering',
'data_breach': {'sensitivity_of_data': 'High',
'type_of_data_compromised': ['Credit card data']},
'date_detected': '2016-06-01',
'description': 'CiCi’s Pizza, an American fast food business based in '
'Coppell, suffered a credit card breach incident in June 2016. '
'Hackers obtained access to card data that affected '
'restaurants by posing as technical support specialists for '
'the company’s point-of-sale provider, and multiple other '
'retailers have been also targeted.',
'impact': {'data_compromised': ['Credit card data'],
'payment_information_risk': 'High',
'systems_affected': ['Point-of-sale system']},
'initial_access_broker': {'entry_point': 'Point-of-sale provider'},
'motivation': 'Financial gain',
'post_incident_analysis': {'root_causes': 'Trust in technical support '
'specialists'},
'references': [{'date_accessed': '2023-10-01',
'source': 'Cyber Incident Description'}],
'threat_actor': 'Unknown',
'title': 'CiCi’s Pizza Credit Card Breach',
'type': 'Data Breach',
'vulnerability_exploited': 'Trust in technical support specialists'}