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Chipotle Says 'Most' of Its Restaurants Were Infected With Credit Card Stealing Malware (theverge.com)
Earlier this year, Chipotle announced that the their payment processing system was hacked. Today, the company has released more information about the hack, identifying the malware that was responsible and releasing a new tool to help customers check whether the restaurant they visited was involved. The company did not say how many restaurants were affected, but it did tell The Verge that "most" locations nationwide may have been involved. The Verge reports: "The malware searched for track data (which sometimes has cardholder name in addition to card number, expiration date, and internal verification code) read from the magnetic stripe of a payment card as it was being routed through the POS device," Chipotle said in a statement. "There is no indication that other customer information was affected." We browsed through the tool and found that every state Chipotle operates in had restaurants that were breached, including most major cities. The restaurants were vulnerable in various time frames between March 24th and April 18th, 2017. Chipotle also operates another chain called Pizzeria Locale, which was affected by the hack as well. (The list of identified restaurants can be found here, which includes locations in Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, and Ohio.) Chipotle noted that not all locations have been identified, but it's a starting guide to check whether your visit lines up with the breached period.
I don't eat there because of their anti-GMO marketing. If you're going to use science denialism as a marketing tool and cater to a dangerous hysteria that makes the world a worse place, then meh, I'll go somewhere else.
I'm surprised that more high-volume retail locations haven't done the same: the chip is painfully slow compared to the swipe strip, and if you are processing 100s per hour it can really put a crimp in customer flow.
This post is the exact type of misinformation I'm taking about. GE crops aren't made to be 'drenched in' Round-Up, they're designed to tolerate it so it can be used in place of other weed control methods, which typically include a series of much worse herbicides.
Yes, there were potatoes that were engineered to produce a type of insecticide, They were called NewLeaf, and are no longer on the market. But you know what, all potatoes produce their own insecticides, notably solanine. If you want potatoes with no insecticides, you beter not eat any plants, because chemical defenses are how they evolved to cope with pests. Don't like that being altered? What do you think happens when we breed a new pest resistant variety without genetic engineering?
As for cross pollination, all plants do that. Reproduction is what life has been fine tuned to do since day one. If you are going to hold GE crops to an unreasonable double standard, then of course they're going to fail. But I could apply that same argument to non-GE crops. Crops with different traits will cross pollinate and result in different progeny, which can cause issues in some instances. Arbitrarily declaring one thing be grown in greenhouses while giving everything else a free pass makes no sense.
Your post shows exactly why I hate anti-GMO marketing so much. It preys on an ignorance of modern agricultural methods, genetics, and basic botany, all while fostering opposition to a technology that society should be embracing.