Hilton advised customers who used a credit card at one of its hotels from April 21 to July 27 this year, or from November 18 to December 5 of last year, to review statements.
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Hilton Worldwide says it has identified and removed malware that targeted card payment systems at some of its hotels over a 17 week period from late 2014 to mid 2015.
If you have recently stayed at any of Hilton’s hotels, the company has confirmed that they were hacked and that payment information was stolen as a result.
“We believe that there may have been unauthorized malware access to some of the computers that host our front desk terminals and payment card terminals in our restaurants, gift shops and other point-of-sale purchase locations at some hotels”, Trump Hotel Collection said at a website devoted to details of the incident.
The company’s other brands include Embassy Suites, Doubletree, Curio, Hampton Inn and Suites, Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, Conrad Hotels & Resorts and Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts.
Guest information was illegally obtained through the covert installation of “malware” on various hotel systems, serving to relay credit card information to a malicious third party rather than exclusively to the banks entrusted with processing each electronic payment.
The hackers did not get people’s addresses or personal identification numbers, according to Holthouser.
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Krebs placed fault on slow adoption in the United States of encrypted chip technology on payment cards that provide more protection for data than does magnetic strips.
