Hackers Steal Thousands of Wyndham Credit Card Numbers

[Mousey]

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(PC World)
Posted on Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:30PM EST

- Hackers broke into a computer at Wyndham Hotels and Resorts last July and stole tens of thousands of customer credit card numbers, the hotel chain warns.

The break-in occurred at a property belonging to a Wyndham franchisee, but that computer was linked to other company systems. "That intrusion enabled a hacker to use the company server to search for customer information located at other franchised and managed property sites," the company said in a statement disclosing the breach.

The data was then uploaded to a Web site during July and August of 2008, ...

 

[winbig]

Wow, that's crazy....

They say that this only affected their properties in Florida...

 

[same_old]

Same thing happend here in Australia some time back

 

[winbig]

It really makes you wonder why in the )#@(*$ they keep tens of thousands of credit card numbers on file in the first place. Even so, there's no need to keep them on a networked server.