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Chipotle: most of its restaurants were infected with credit card stealing malware
- Thread starter giga
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When I bought my new car last year, all of the signatures were done on this "high tech" table that doubled as a giant screen for us to read the documents and such.
As someone who works in the legal field where hard signatures are still valued, it was very, very weird.
Edit: Mother fucker. I went to Chipotle on April 15 for the first time in over a year because of work. I got a new card last month already fuck.
Escape Goat
Member
Infected is what Chipotle does best.
I don't know about Chipotle but this is a HUGE issue on Miami, specially for brazilian tourists.
I went to Miami with my wife to shop for baby stuff last year and six months later someone used my CC data to buy stuff online on US sites. My credit card was charged 52K dollars before someone from the bank noticed that there was something wrong.
I'm pretty sure my card was cloned at a Walgreens close to the place I rented.
They usually use stolen credit card data on the weekends because banks are closed and it takes more time to detect the fraud.
I went to Miami with my wife to shop for baby stuff last year and six months later someone used my CC data to buy stuff online on US sites. My credit card was charged 52K dollars before someone from the bank noticed that there was something wrong.
I'm pretty sure my card was cloned at a Walgreens close to the place I rented.
They usually use stolen credit card data on the weekends because banks are closed and it takes more time to detect the fraud.
spootime
Member
If you order ahead you cant sit there and force them to keep putting more and more black beans in your bowl.
Poltergust
Member
Great. Now I need to get a new credit card. This blows.
Oh whoops I was thinking just the readers themselves. If they don't have them then yeah thats a different problem
PixelatedBookake
Junior Member
Chipotle sucks. Every time I eat there it tears my ass a new one. I like their food but I'd rather just go to Moe's instead. This is even more of a reason not to go.
I found 3 locations across the state, gave up after that. There probably isnt a clean store in MD.
I gave them a break after not visiting for months, I might be done for good.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
There is literally no reason why Chipotle would upset your stomach and Moe's would not.
Cards with chips still have the magnetic stripe. My card had a chip and most places I went used the stripe reader.
Might as well skip the chip and move straight on to contactless. I'm at the point now where I groan if I have to use chip and pin.
Zoe
Member
Mag stripes contain this kind of data: https://support.authorize.net/authkb/index?page=content&id=A755
Yeah I mean it's a national chain, come the fuck on. The only other place I regularly go to that doesn't use the chip is the local grocery store, but it's a small, family-owned chain so I can almost understand. Chipotle has zero excuse.
I believe banks are trying to make it standard.
It's a pain in the ass, that's for sure. I wish more places would take a pin number.
TheCochese
Banned
Why is this place so popular when local shops make a better product and aren't actively trying to kill you or bankrupt you?
I thought the rampant mudbutt episodes put it in the decline?
Plenty people live in rural/suburb areas where this is literally the only thing close to Mexican.
That being said, I think I'm done with Chipotle now. They're obviously poorly mismanaged in more ways than one.
Vegetable Lasagna
Member
Not all cards have chips yet. Especially a lot of debit cards don't. I've also noticed a ton of places where their chip readers aren't setup yet and you're forced to swipe.
TheCochese
Banned
Plus compared to Willy's, Barberito's or even Moe's the toppings selection is ass.
Based Atlanta burritos.
Shake Appeal
Member
I have yet to ever use chip and PIN technology in the U.S.
Some places have you insert the chip. No one has ever requested a PIN. I don't even know mine, and my bank doesn't send one out with a new card.
It's mind-boggling.
Not all chip card require pin. I think it's up to the card issuer
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Meh no fucks given, will still eat chipotle. If worst come to worst, perhaps I can sue them hmmmm.
Mister_Ruck
Member
Not everybody lives in a city where they can get quality local Mexican food. There's no way you didn't know this.
I've never even heard of two of these three places.
Either watch your credit card statements / notifications for strange activity or just get a new card from your issuer.
I get notifications for any card activity on my phone for example. Once something pops up that I did not authorize, I'll just freeze this card and get a new one.
Unless you live in a serious one horse town there are always mexican places cheaper and better
Debit Card: Cancel it now and stop using a debit card for daily transactions.
Credit Card: Monitor your activity. Call your bank if something unauthorized pops up. You are not liable.
Astral Dog
Member
Those weren't the only bugs inside the system i bet
TheCochese
Banned
Yuuuuuup. The smaller the space, the better.
I've been in towns that didn't have 24 hour gas stations that had quality Mexican joints.
None of them near me are basically grab and go like Chipotle. That's pretty much the only reason why I'd go to them- a relatively healthy grab and go meal that heats up well for leftovers. No Moe's here and the Qdoba closed down pretty quickly after it opened.
What should I use my debit for then?
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
My local one got hit, but luckily I never went during the listed time period. I think I'm just gonna cut that place out completely. Too many fuckups.
Chipotle's spices are heavier.
Emergency situation where a credit card isn't accepted and you don't have time to get cash, honestly. I used to use my debit card from time to time but switched over to CC 99% just to be extra safe.
ATM. That's it. Go get a credit card and get yourself some actual fraud protection.
look at this baffling-ass shit.
Victoria's Mexican Food has been there like 15 years and a Chipotle opened next door. It used to be a Chinese place. I don't know how that Chipotle exists.
Local Qdoba opened up right next to a very popular sit-down Tex-Mex place that's been there for decades. I'm not sure it lasted a year before it closed down. Qdoba, that is.
Zoe
Member
Many people don't go to Chipotle expecting Mexican food.