Hotels Lead the Industry In Credit Card Theft 135
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kdawson
from the shred-everything dept.
from the shred-everything dept.
katarn writes "A study released this year found that, of the credit card hacking cases last year, 38 percent involved the hotel industry. At hotels with inadequate data security, the greatest amount of credit card information can be obtained using the simplest methods. It doesn't require brilliance on the part of the hacker. Most of the chronic security breaches in the hotel industry are the result of a failure to equip, or to store or transmit this kind of data properly, and that starts with the point-of-sale credit card swiping systems."
Re:Wait...what? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wait...what? (Score:5, Funny)
And nose snorts. Don't forget about the nose snorts.
Re:Not surprising... (Score:3, Funny)
They don't. I'll name names.
I was at the Doubletree in Crystal City, VA (just outside DC). I used the "Print from your room" facility.
My printout was on the BACK of printouts that included names, addresses, and phone numbers (no CC's though). I told the front desk that they might want to look into their paper recycling policy...