Church's Texas Chicken controversies
Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.
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2019
Church’s Chicken discloses possible payment-card breach
Issue disclosure
Church’s Chicken disclosed a possible breach involving payment-card information used at certain company-owned U.S. restaurants. The company said its investigation was ongoing and that the incident may have affected card numbers, names and expiration dates.
Company response
Investigation — Church's Chicken
Church's Chicken launched an investigation after noting the suspicious behavior at the end of October.
Remediation — Church's Chicken
Our company immediately retained a leading cybersecurity forensics firm to help us contain and remediate the activity, and launch an investigation to determine the extent to which information in Churchâs systems may have been impacted.
Ongoing disclosure — Church's Chicken
Updates will be posted to a specially created page on the company's website www.churchs.com/security as they emerge.
Source excerpt
In a statement released on its website, the company said that the possible breach would only impact some of the company-owned restaurants in the United States.
"Although our investigation is ongoing, what we currently know suggests that payment cards used at certain restaurants in 2019 may have been impacted," said a Church's spokesperson.
An American restaurant chain has warned of a possible data breach after detecting unauthorized activity in a computer system used to process payments.