Radisson Hotels Reporting Significant Data Breach

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http://www.cutimes.com/News/2009/8/Pages/Radisson-Hotels-Reporting-Significant-Data-Breach.aspx

The Radisson Hotel chain is the latest American retail company to announce 
it has suffered a significant breach of its computer systems resulting in 
the compromise of credit and debit card data.

In an open letter to guests on the hotel's Web site 
(http://www.radisson.com/openletter/openletter.html) Radisson said that 
the breach had occurred for a number of months, from November 2008 until 
May 2009, but said the investigation had not revealed how many card 
numbers might have been compromised.  It also revealed that the data 
accessed may have included the name printed on a guest's credit card or 
debit card, a credit or debit card number, and/or a card expiration date.

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