It has taken three months for the management of KrebsOnSecurity to admit that a number of its hotels had suffered from a data breach: Brian Kreb﻿s of Trump Hotels﻿ had reported on a probable hack back in July. There have been a spate of attacks on hotel chains in the US over the past year, probably to cash in on weak links ahead of the rolling introduction of chip and pin security this year, which makes the stealing of such data from point-of-sale registers all the more difficult. The breach at Trump Hotels appears to have been running for a year, from May19th 2014 through to June 2nd 2015.
It has taken three months for the management of Trump Hotels﻿ to admit that a number of its hotels had suffered from a data breach: Brian Kreb﻿s of KrebsOnSecurity had reported on a probable hack back in July. There have been a spate of attacks on hotel chains in the US over the past year, probably to cash in on weak links ahead of the rolling introduction of chip and pin security this year, which makes the stealing of such data from point-of-sale registers all the more difficult. The breach at Trump Hotels appears to have been running for a year, from May19th 2014 through to June 2nd 2015.