Eataly's Flatiron location was hacked, exposing credit card data from customers who paid between January and April 2015. The restaurant patched the vulnerability and is offering affected customers a year of fraud resolution and identity protection.
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And Eataly customers are being warned that hackers may have their credit card info. The upscale Italian eatery in the Flatiron District says that anyone who paid with plastic between January and April of this year is at risk. Eataly says that cyber crooks were able to install malware to capture data when people checked out. If your account is at risk, well, experts say that you may spot a bogus charge before the bank does.
Look at your statements every single day. What I've done is I've gone online and I've set up notifications and alerts so that I can get an email or a text message every single time a charge is made.
Well, Eataly says it's closed the hole in its system. All customers who may have been affected by that breach are being offered a year of free fraud resolution and identity protection.
What's paramount to us is the security and the safety of our customers as well as our, our employees. So this for us was quite —frustrated.
Just like a bank that can still be robbed today, uh, corporations with credit card numbers can still be hacked. There'll always be data breaches, there'll always be bank robberies.
Eataly's website promises the company's since patched up that breach and that customers may once more pay for their gelato using their credit card. Live in the Flatiron District, I'm Matt King, Fox 5 News.
