A Boston-area restaurant company was fined $110,000 for failing to patch a security hole that resulted in the electronic theft of credit card information from tens of thousands of customers. It is the first penalty levied under the state’s new data privacy act.
According to a lawsuit filed by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, The Briar Group LLC neglected to remove malicious software from its computer systems, an oversight that enabled computer hackers to access customers’ credit and debit card data between April – Dec. 2009.
“When consumers use their credit and debit cards at Massachusetts establishments, they have an expectation that their personal information will be properly protected,” Coakley said in a press release. “In this instance, the Briar Group did not take proper protections to protect customers’ personal information.”
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