Banks: Card Breach at Hilton Hotel Properties

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/09/banks-card-breach-at-hilton-hotel-properties/

By Brian Krebs
Krebs on Security
Sept 25, 2015

Multiple sources in the banking industry say they have traced a pattern of 
credit card fraud that suggests hackers have compromised point-of-sale 
registers in gift shops and restaurants at a large number of Hilton Hotel 
and franchise properties across the United States. Hilton says it is 
investigating the claims.

In August, Visa sent confidential alerts to numerous financial 
institutions warning of a breach at a brick-and-mortar entity that is 
known to have extended from April 21, 2015 to July 27, 2015. The alerts to 
each bank included card numbers that were suspected of being compromised, 
but per Visa policy those notifications did not name the breached entity.

However, sources at five different banks say they have now determined that 
the common point-of-purchase for cards included in that alert had only one 
commonality: They were all were used at Hilton properties, including the 
company’s flagship Hilton locations as well as Embassy Suites, Doubletree, 
Hampton Inn and Suites, and the upscale Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts.

In a written statement, a Hilton spokesperson said the company is 
investigating the breach claims.

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