Hackers and thieves have picked on Mama’s Boy, lifting credit and debit card information from the Italian restaurant in Durango, police there said this afternoon.
Durango police said the restaurant’s computer system was compromised in early August and the breach wasn’t discovered until earlier this month.
Hackers ran up charges on 70 of the restaurant customers’ credit and debit cards, even duplicating the cards that were used to make in-person purchases in other states, police said.
Anyone who paid by card at Mama’s Boy Italian Ristorante between Aug. 1 and Oct. 15 should check their accounts “immediately,” police said.
Even those Mama’s Boy customers who have not been victimized should deactivate the card number to prevent future charges, they advised.
Authorities in northern Colorado also are investigating widespread credit- and debit-card fraud.
More than 600 accounts have been tapped for bogus charges made in other states and countries since Oct. 8, according to law enforcement agencies in Larimer and Weld counties, where most of the victims are located.
Police have said they don’t know how the numbers were being obtained, and law enforcement agencies from across the region are scheduled to meet Monday to work together, according to the Loveland Reporter Herald.
A spokesman for the task force was not immediately available this afternoon.
