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Dozens of credit card numbers stolen from Driskill guests
From: kirniki <kirniki () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:51:35 -0400
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2010/06/23/dozens_of_credit_card_numbers_1.html The credit card numbers of dozens of recent guests at the downtown Driskill Hotel were stolen after thieves hacked into the accounting network for the hotel’s management company, officials said. Austin police said they are still trying to determine the exact number of local victims, but that up to 700 people who stayed at about three dozen properties managed by Destination Hotels & Resorts nationally may have been affected. Austin police are investigating the local thefts; agents for the U.S. Secret Service are investigating who accessed the accounting system for the company, based in Englewood, Colo. “We are looking at losses in the hundreds of thousands, so it is pretty serious,” said Austin police Sgt. Matt Greer, who supervises the department’s financial crimes unit. “Usually, the losses are with the bank.” Greer said hotel officials discovered and halted the breach this month and that they think most of the thefts happened in the past couple of months. He said that in some instances, authorities think the credit card numbers were sold in batches online, allowing them to be used at other merchants and businesses. [...]
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