Topic - Data Breach

Choice Hotels understands the importance of data security, and protecting guest information is a priority. The company recently learned of a technical issue that only occurred when a visitor to its website was using a Safari browser, typed information in a field on the page, and the browser crashed and restarted. Under these circumstances, Safari put information that had been typed by the visitor on the page into the website address in order to repopulate the page when the browser restarted. continue reading →

Marriott's data breach affected nearly 400 million people in both the United States and abroad. Pierce Bainbridge joined the battle against Marriott today, filing suit on behalf of victims in the US and worldwide. The suit seeks to hold Marriott International, Inc. and its President and Chief Executive Officer, Arne Sorenson, responsible. continue reading →

With data breaches increasingly in the news and customers less trusting than ever, is the travel industry’s ‘new gold’ too much like hard work? Derek Walter has been finding out continue reading →

Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) has confirmed that a credit card breach impacted at least a dozen properties between August and Dec. 2016. continue reading →

Sources in the financial industry have told information security reporter Brian Krebs that they’re seeing fraudulent transactions on cards that were used at InterContinental properties, especially Holiday Inn. continue reading →

Millennium Hotels & Resorts North America (MHR) has become aware of a data security incident involving food and beverage point of sale systems at 14 of its hotels in the United States. continue reading →