P.F. Chang’s diners’ data stolen

NEW YORK » P.F. Chang’s confirmed Friday that data from credit and debit cards used at its restaurants were stolen.

The company learned about the security breach Tuesday from the U.S. Secret Service and began investigating the breach with the agency and a team of forensics experts.

While it knows that customers were exposed, it doesn’t know how many, when it happened or which restaurants were affected.

The company is working with credit card companies to determine which cards may have been affected.

All P.F. Chang’s restaurants are now using manual credit card imprinting devices to proc­ess card payments while the investigation continues. There are 209 P.F. Chang’s restaurants around the country, including one in Wai­kiki.

For now the company is asking customers to monitor their credit and bank accounts and report any fraudulent activity to their card companies. It also launched a website, pfchangs.com/security, to keep people updated on the investigation and answer questions.

Hilton to run 5 hotels in Myanmar

YANGON, Myanmar » Hilton Worldwide has signed a contract to operate five hotels in Myanmar, which is emerging as a popular Southeast Asian tourist destination after military rule was lifted in 2011.

Hilton is teaming up with Eden Group, a Myanmar conglomerate with businesses from hotels to energy.

Hilton says it will re-brand Eden hotels in the capital, Naypyitaw, and Ngapali beach in western Rakhine state. It will open hotels in Inle lake in Shan state, Bagan in central Myanmar and the central city of Mandalay.

It plans to open a hotel in Yangon under a separate deal announced last year.

The number of tourists visiting Myanmar has surged in the past two years, though the nation still lacks sufficient hotel rooms and infrastructure to challenge neighboring Thailand as a major destination.

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