The Chicago-based Hyatt Hotels Corporation said it identified signs of data theft from payment cards used at some 250 Hyatt-managed locations – primarily restaurants – in 50 countries from August through December 2015.
Malware reportedly intercepted payment card data, such as cardholder names, card numbers, expiration dates and internal verification codes, from information routed through affected payment card processing systems used onsite.
Hyatt also revealed a small percentage of the at-risk cards during this period completed transactions at spas, golf shops, parking lots and some hotel front desks and sales offices. The at-risk window for this limited number of locations began on or shortly after July 30, 2015.
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Roy Urrico
Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).
