Why Can't Hotels Keep Our Information Safe From Hackers?
Budget Travel tweeted at us about hacking incident at Wyndham Hotels where guests' credit card information including names, credit card numbers and card expiration dates were stolen. This was the second time in recent years Wyndham has been hacked.
How does this happen? We would think that securing the computer systems at a hotel should be just as important as securing the guestrooms. Sadly, according to this report from BNET, hackers love to hack hotels because it's easy and because it can take several months for hotels to realized they've been hacked.
Making it worse is that much like the Hotel WiFi conundrum where most hotels are franchises owned by different owners and WiFi charges vary from hotel to hotel despite having the same brand name, there doesn't seem to be a uniform computer system to safeguard guest info.
Like we said, protecting our identities before and after we check-in to a hotel should be just as important as protecting us when we're inside the hotel room. Otherwise, we're paying cash!
In other hotel news this week:
· Hard Rock Las Vegas president found dead at home: Morgans Hotel Group suffers another loss at the executive level after Randy Kwasniewksi dies, possibly from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. [Market Watch, VegasChatter]
· Four Seasons Robber Might Be Serial Hotel Thief: LAPD officials think the man who ripped off the Sugar Baron at the Four Seasons last week may have struck twice before at different hotels. [LA Times]
· The New Look of the Plaza Athenee Can Be Yours for Less: Jetsetter.com has the newly renovated hotel going on sale today at 3pm. [Jetsetter.com]
· Cooper Square's Faustina is 'Miniscule Improvement': The successor to the hotel's former restaurant gets luke-warm review from the Post. [NY Post]
· This is Kayak's Most Popular Hotel for The Week: We're surprised but the airport hotel did recently undergo a great renovations. [Kayak]
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