ORLANDO, Fla., Aug. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- On
August 16, 2018, Darden Restaurants
was notified by federal authorities that a legacy point-of-sale
system of certain Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen restaurants, a concept
acquired by Darden in 2017, may have been compromised in a
cyberattack incident involving restaurants in 23 states. We believe
that payment card information, including card numbers, from guests
who visited the affected Cheddar's restaurants between Nov. 3, 2017 and Jan. 2,
2018, may have been exposed. We estimate the exposure to be
567,000 payment card numbers; however, we continue to assess the
scope of the incident.
Upon being notified of this incident, we activated our response
plan and we engaged a third-party forensic cybersecurity firm to
investigate. Our current systems and networks were not impacted by
this incident. In fact, this incident occurred on a legacy
Cheddar's system that was permanently disabled and replaced by
April 10, 2018, as part of our
integration process.
The trust our guests place in us is something we take very
seriously, and we regret that this incident occurred. We deeply
value our relationships with our guests, and our priority is to
assist those who may have been impacted by this incident. That is
why we have arranged to have ID Experts® provide identity
protection services at no cost to those individuals.
Guests who dined at any Cheddar's restaurant located in
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas,
Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New
Mexico, North Carolina,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, Texas,
Virginia and Wisconsin between Nov.
3, 2017 and Jan. 2, 2018,
should call (888) 258-7280 for more information about the identity
protection services available to them. Representatives are
available to answer questions Monday-Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern (excluding U.S.
holidays) and guests can also visit a dedicated website at
https://ide.myidcare.com/cheddars.
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SOURCE Darden Restaurants, Inc.: General