2 isle banks block customers' cards after security breach

By Dave Segal

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 01, 2013

~~<p>Bank of Hawaii and First Hawaiian Bank have blocked debit and credit cards for an unspecified number of customers as a precaution after a restaurant on Oahu had its computer system breached.</p>
<p>"As a proactive measure and a precaution to help protect our customers, we blocked customers' cards who we knew patronized that restaurant during a certain time period in February," Bankoh spokesman Stafford Kiguchi said Thursday. "However, not all of those cards would have been necessarily compromised."</p>
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Bank of Hawaii and First Hawaiian Bank have blocked debit and credit cards for an unspecified number of customers as a precaution after a restaurant on Oahu had its computer system breached.

"As a proactive measure and a precaution to help protect our customers, we blocked customers' cards who we knew patronized that restaurant during a certain time period in February," Bankoh spokesman Stafford Kiguchi said Thursday. "However, not all of those cards would have been necessarily compromised." Login for more...