Hyatt Hotels Corporation recently announced that it had identified malicious software code resulting in unauthorized access to customer payment card information. Hyatt disclosed that upon investigating the incident, it discovered unauthorized access to customer payment cards manually entered or swiped at the front desk of 41 Hyatt-managed locations in 11 countries between March 18, 2017, and July 2, 2017. A list of the affected locations and contact information for questions is available here. Hyatt states that cardholder name, card number, expiration date and internal verification codes were affected but that it has no indication that other information was involved. This is the second Hyatt breach in the past two years. The previous incident (describe here) involved credit card data at 250 locations in approximately 50 countries.
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