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FYI: 243,000 Hotels.com customers' credit card details exposed
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King_Of_Fools
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Ernst & Young laptop loss exposes 243,000 Hotels.com customers
"Recently, Hotels.com was informed by its outside auditor, Ernst & Young, that one of Ernst & Young's employees had his laptop computer stolen," Hotels.com told its customers in the letter. "Unfortunately, the computer contained certain information about customer transactions with Hotels.com, and other sites through which we provide booking services directly to customers, from 2002 through 2004.
"This information may have included your name, address and some credit or debit card information you provided at that time."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/01/ey_hotels_laptop/
"Recently, Hotels.com was informed by its outside auditor, Ernst & Young, that one of Ernst & Young's employees had his laptop computer stolen," Hotels.com told its customers in the letter. "Unfortunately, the computer contained certain information about customer transactions with Hotels.com, and other sites through which we provide booking services directly to customers, from 2002 through 2004.
"This information may have included your name, address and some credit or debit card information you provided at that time."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/01/ey_hotels_laptop/
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Hotels.com is a part of Expedia:
http://www.expediainc.com/
I wonder if any of these sites is affected as well?0 -
The_Register wrote:The laptop in question was stolen from an Ernst & Young worker's car in Texas and did have some basic data protection mechanisms such as, erm, the need for a password.Ernst_and_Young_homepage wrote:Quality in everything we do
:rotfl: Their highly-paid IT people should be implementing proper encryption etc as standard. Makes you wonder what they actually do at work.0
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