Dozens of credit card numbers stolen from Driskill guests

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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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