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Wyndham hotels hacked
Wyndham hotels, which also operates Days Inn, Ramada and Super 8 motels, reported another break in, resulting in customer card data and magnetic stripe data being stolen.
The break in occurred between Oct 2009 and Jan 2010 and affected an undisclosed number of company franchisees and hotel properties that Wyndham manages. The hacker was able to transfer card data belonging to an undisclosed number of customers from Wyndham central servers to an external server before being detected.
This is the third data breach reported by Wyndham in the past year. In February 2009, Wyndham reported a breach that occurred between July and August 2008 that compromised tens of thousands of credit card numbers. Wyndham warned customers of a second breach in August 2009.
The company has posted a notice on their website, informing customers of the breach.
There is also a FAQ, which seems to provide more details on this incident.
