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Have you stayed, eaten or relaxed at a Hyatt hotel or property between Aug. 13 2015 and Dec. 8, 2015? If so, there is a very good chance that your credit or debit card data was stolen by unknown cyber thieves who infiltrated many of the hotel chain’s payment systems.
In a first disclosure about the scope of a breach acknowledged last month, Hyatt Hotels Corp. informed us that the intrusion most likely affected guests at 250 hotels in about 50 countries.
In a statement released Thursday January 14, 2016, Hyatt announced that the majority of the payment systems compromised by card-stealing malware were at restaurants within the hotels, and that a “small percentage of the at-risk cards were used at spas, golf shops, parking and a limited number of front desks.” The released list of malware affected hotels is here.
Chicago-based Hyatt joins a long list of other hotel chains who have experienced similar data breaches in 2015, including Hilton, Starwood, Mandarin Oriental, White Lodging (twice) and the Trump Collection.
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