Obscured by other July headlines was news that Trump Hotels, along with Four Seasons, Hard Rock Hotels & Casinos and Loews Hotels, announced a security breach may have unleashed customer data.

All the incidents related to Sabre Hospitality Solutions', the multinational travel industry titan, which alerted hotels about an apparent breach of its software-as-a-service SynXis Central Reservations system that could affect 36,000 properties, customers' payment card data and personal details.

KrebsOnSecurity first reported in May that Southlake, Texas-based Sabre in a quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said it was investigating an incident of unauthorized access to payment information contained in a subset of its hotel reservations system. Last week, Trump International Hotels disclosed the SABRE breach impacted at least 13 Trump Hotel properties between August 2016 and March 2017.

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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.).