Trump's hotel empire targeted by hackers stealing credit card data

Source: Daily Telegraph

US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump's chain of luxury hotels appears to have been hacked by cyber-criminals. The Trump Hotel Collection, which includes more than a dozen high-end hotels, was reportedly targeted by hackers who stole the credit card information of several customers.

According to cyber security expert Brian Krebs, he was tipped off by unnamed sources from the banking industry who "noticed a pattern of fraud on customer credit cards which suggests that hackers have breached credit card systems at some — if not all — of the Trump Hotel Collection properties."

According to the same sources, affected properties appeared to include Trump International Hotel New York, Trump Hotel Waikiki in Honolulu, and the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Toronto.

Although the breach has not been officially confirmed by the hotel chain, a representative told Krebs the group was "in the midst of a thorough investigation on this matter."

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If confirmed, this would be the second such attack on Trump's hotels in nine months. The first attack, which was confirmed publicly by the Trump Group last October, saw payment terminals at nine properties around the US infected by a virus that had been stealing customers' credit card information for a full year.

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