A little over a month a go InterContinental reported that they were investigating “claims of a possible breach”. On Friday, February 3rd 2017, it was confirmed that a malware was spotted in the servers and it was on a quest for track data, consisting of cardholder’s name, card number, expiration date and verification code, used between August and December of 2016. Intercontinental says that only the payment cards used at the restaurants and bars in 12 of it’s hotels were affected, the cards used at the front desk were not.
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Jason A Lindsley says
Luckily this was detected and responded to and appears to have had minimal impact. I’m curious as to what triggered the investigation. Usually, an investigation will occur because the card associations (e.g. Visa, MasterCard) identify a fraud trend at specific merchant. Sometimes, however security controls detect anomalies on the network and trigger an investigation.