Newly discovered credit card data breaches point out the need to defend against hackers, who have flooded the dark web with personal information and opened the door to more ransomware attacks.

Brian Krebs in his KrebsOnSecurity blog reported about a Missouri-based B&B Theatres, the seventh largest theater chain in the U.S., hit with a two-year credit card breach; and Avanti Markets, which provides self-service payment kiosks that sit beside snack machines, whose internal networks suffered a malware intrusion.

Based in Gladstone, Missouri, B&B Theatres operates roughly 400 screens across 50 locations in seven states, including Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.

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Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).