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title: "QSR Magazine: Hackers Take Aim at Quick-Service Restaurants"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/f4cd3b20-d598-4d03-ad66-902b4573f2fe
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/qsr-magazine-hackers-take-aim-at-quick-service-restaurants-2703138
category: "QSR"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "QSR"
topics: ["Regulation & legal"]
published: 2017-06-27T13:08:02.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T04:10:57.582Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/8c060df3a3e9045b3e433cbd9fa93cec1865.jpg
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# QSR Magazine: Hackers Take Aim at Quick-Service Restaurants

**TL;DR:** Quick-service restaurants are vulnerable to cyber attacks due to complex security systems and multiple locations. Franchise brands are a target for hackers, with the average cost of responding to data breaches being $150 per piece of compromised data.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2017-06-27. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/qsr-magazine-hackers-take-aim-at-quick-service-restaurants-2703138).*

## Story

Franchise brands are the perfect target for would-be hackers. According to a recent QSR Magazine article, CEO and co-founder of cloud infrastructure security firm RedLock, Varun Badhwar, says a restaurant’s defense is only as good as its weakest link. Franchise restaurants allow for many potential points of entry due to different security systems across the system.

“You have to believe you are also going to be targeted,” said Badhwar, “and it’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when. So, proactively you need solutions.

The average cost of responding to data breaches is now $150 for each piece of compromised data, which continues to increase. Restaurants need to now have policies and plans for when it inevitably happens.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- QSR Magazine (publication)
- quick service restaurants (topic)
- data breaches (topic)
- cyberattacks (topic)
- security systems (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/qsr-magazine-hackers-take-aim-at-quick-service-restaurants-2703138). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/f4cd3b20-d598-4d03-ad66-902b4573f2fe).