CEFCO Allegedly Victim of Data Theft
CEFCO Allegedly Victim of Data Theft
Post on leaked data website claims to have private information from c-store chain
By Jackson Lewis on May 25, 2021
convenience store data securityPhotograph: Shutterstock
TEMPLE, Texas — Hackers have posted 42 gigabytes of data allegedly stolen from CEFCO Convenience Stores on a website known as Marketo.
The website indicates the stolen data includes “agreements, financial data, account lists, budget reports, NDAs and other interesting documents,” according to the post attached to the file online.
"We identified suspicious activity on some of our computer systems and immediately engaged security experts to conduct a thorough investigation. That investigation is ongoing, but there is currently no evidence that any consumer payment card information was affected," Reagan Francis, brand manager for CEFCO Convenience Stores, told CSP Daily News.
Marketo is a leaked data marketplace that was launched April 2021, according to technology news site TechNadu.
CEFCO is No. 40 on CSP’s 2021 Top 40 update to the 2020 Top 202 ranking of c-stores by store count.
Temple, Texas-based CEFCO, a subsidiary of Fikes Wholesale, has more than 200 convenience stores in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.
Post on leaked data website claims to have private information from c-store chain
By Jackson Lewis on May 25, 2021
convenience store data securityPhotograph: Shutterstock
TEMPLE, Texas — Hackers have posted 42 gigabytes of data allegedly stolen from CEFCO Convenience Stores on a website known as Marketo.
The website indicates the stolen data includes “agreements, financial data, account lists, budget reports, NDAs and other interesting documents,” according to the post attached to the file online.
"We identified suspicious activity on some of our computer systems and immediately engaged security experts to conduct a thorough investigation. That investigation is ongoing, but there is currently no evidence that any consumer payment card information was affected," Reagan Francis, brand manager for CEFCO Convenience Stores, told CSP Daily News.
Marketo is a leaked data marketplace that was launched April 2021, according to technology news site TechNadu.
CEFCO is No. 40 on CSP’s 2021 Top 40 update to the 2020 Top 202 ranking of c-stores by store count.
Temple, Texas-based CEFCO, a subsidiary of Fikes Wholesale, has more than 200 convenience stores in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.
