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A group of friends who spent an evening at a downtown Greenville piano bar say that many of them have had their identities stolen and their bank cards used fraudulently in several other states.The group of about 30 people went to Jack n’ Diane’s on Brown Street on Feb. 26. One of the members of the group wrote a blog entry about the night and what followed.John Hoyt wrote that that group had a great time, and enjoyed the dueling piano act and said “entertainers were outstanding, the servers were attentive.”He said about a week later, his wife noticed a purchase at a grocery store in New York on their credit card, and another purchase in Los Angeles, neither of which they had made. Hoyt said after thinking about it, he narrowed down the likely place for the card number to have been harvested as Jack n’ Diane’s.He said after canceling the card, he posted a comment on Facebook asking if any of his friends had experienced fraudulent charges, and he said that as of March 11, at least ten other people in the group reported they had experienced the same thing, with charges from all over the place, including California, New York and Canada.Gina Harn, with Jack n’ Diane's, said they think the hacking happened between Feb. 26-March 1. Jack n' Diane's owner Matt Kschinka said he was also a victim of the hacking and had to replace his credit card. He said they are taking preventative measures to make sure it never happens again.Kschinka said, "We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this has caused our customers. We are doing everything in our power to make sure this doesn't happen again. Our investigation into this unfortunate situation is complete and we are fixing the problem. Our system was remotely hacked through some sort of virus that gave the wrongdoers access to our system. Since then our current point of sale system has been cleaned of any viruses and has been updated. We have also switched point of sales systems from Positouch to the new Clover system, which to our knowledge, has the highest level of security that is available. This switch should take place over the next two days.""Thank you to all of our customers who made us aware of the breach," he said.Greenville police are investigating the complaints. If you have any information or feel you were also victimized, call Greenville police at 864-467-5333.