A terrifying new scam is sweeping across the US, catching people off guard by using QR codes to drain their bank accounts.

With cases of QR code fraud starting to pop up and some officials warning consumers to take pause, you may be wondering if it ...

QR codes used to be a fun way to pull up a menu or museum information. Now, hackers are turning them into dangerous scams. Let's connect the dots.

It's not the QR code itself that collects customer data, said Dustin Moores, a privacy lawyer with nNovation LLP in Ottawa. "What the QR code does is it sort of acts as a web link to a web page.

There are more opportunities in QR codes beyond the physical menu — such as on receipts for quick and easy payment or to track a customer’s past order. CNBC added that reservation services ...

For example, Oz du Soleil walked out of a Las Vegas restaurant because of the QR code menu. He told the Wall Street Journal that it felt too much like work navigating the QR menu on his phone ...

Benjamin Claeys, chief executive of Menu Tiger, a global QR-menu software provider, said restaurants are still interested. He told the Times that the number of businesses signing up for the company's ...

Fewer restaurants are creating new QR menus, he said. And about 75 percent of their existing QR codes are essentially dormant, with fewer than 90 views in the last year. (Half had fewer than five.) ...

Many restaurants are switching back to using physical menus, The New York Times reported. Restaurants are making the change in part because customers hate QR-code menus. Still, some restaurants ...