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The Hyatt hotel chain discovered credit-card stealing malware in its payment system on November 30 and announced it December 23, in an apparent attempt to spread holiday cheer.
Hyatt's notice to customers has very few details about the investigation, such as how long the breach lasted or how many consumers may have had their card data stolen as a result. Hyatt did say that it has taken steps to strengthen its systems, and that "customers can feel confident using payment cards at Hyatt hotels worldwide."
Hilton, Starwood, and Trump hotels have enjoyed similar data breaches over the past few months.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 27 2015, @12:22PM
"Looks like I will have to revert back to snailmail for those - same as I did for internet banking. "
Good luck with that. Many places tend to only let people switch in one direction - to electronic, not from. For the places that do allow you to switch back to snailmail, they add a surcharge on top of your monthly bill. It's one of the reasons why I never bother to switch to electronic shit for this. Perhaps when the business world proves to me they know how to take online security seriously, and the computer software industry (Mainly the OSes, you know who I'm talking about, but also several infamous programs commonly used) learn how to code securely as well. When that happens, I'll start to consider trusting them.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 27 2015, @04:20PM
Disposing all the paperwork securely is a ball-ache too.
Why don't we work on making javascript more secure - no reason for it to be reading files, screen image, keystrokes and sending that back to someone.