Taco Bell Employees Hit by Cyber Attack
Local Taco Bell employees were shocked to discover they’d been the victim of a cyber attack that exposed their names, birthdays, and Social Security numbers to hackers.
A former restaurant employee shared the letter sent to employees by Charter Central LLC, the company that operates Taco Bell Restaurants in the region.
According to the company, the criminal cyber-attack happened in January of this year. Both current and former employees were affected by the attack. Charter Central says it took immediate steps to secure their servers and investigate the incident.
When your information is compromised in a cyber-attack, that information is frequently put up for sale in dark web marketplaces for crooks to purchase. You are at greater risk for identity theft and of being targeted by scammers. The company offered a year of identity theft protection to affected employees,
If you are the victim of a cyber-attack, you should carefully monitor all of your accounts and consider putting a freeze on your credit to prevent scammers from opening accounts in your name.
You can freeze your credit by following these links:
You’ll need to unfreeze your report before applying for new credit. But this will prevent crooks from using your account. This will need to be done separately with each of the credit monitoring agencies.
Click here to freeze Equifax.
Click here to freeze Experian
Click here to freeze TranUnion
If you think your accounts have been breached, place a fraud alert on your credit report. You’ll have to do that individually with each of the credit monitoring companies.
Click here for Equifax.
Here for Experian
And here for TransUnion
