Dairy Queen hacked - at least 8,000 credit card numbers stolen and for sale

Dairy Queen was hacked with hackers likely stealing credit cards from some of its many US stores. Fraudulent transactions on credit cards appeared to have stemmed from a breach at the company.


Communications director Dean Peters has said that so far, no franchise has reached out to them for assistance. "We would assist [the stores] if they reached out to use about a breach, but so far we have not heard from any of our franchisees that they have had any kind of breach."

Brian Krebs, a cyber-crime prober, speculated that the breaches may have resulted from a handful of hacked stores owned by a single franchisee.

Hacking one store could have given the hackers access to multiple stores if they used the same password or the password was weak.

A private cybercrime forum is reporting a "huge and awesome update" with a tranche of 1000 cards selling on 11 August, a second with 2000 sold the following week and another with 5000 credit cards currently on offer.