Hotel Preston yalengeza lero kuti yachitapo kanthu kuti ifufuze ndikuwongolera zomwe zakhudza makhadi olipira pa desiki yakutsogolo kwa hoteloyo.
Pa June 13, 2017, Hotel Preston idadziwitsidwa ndi akuluakulu azamalamulo za vuto lomwe lingakhalepo pachitetezo cha data yokhudzana ndi imodzi mwamalo ake akutsogolo. Hotel Preston nthawi yomweyo adayamba kufufuza ndipo adalumikizana ndi kampani yowona zamilandu yamakompyuta kuti ithandizire. Kafukufukuyu adapeza zizindikiro zosonyeza kuti pulogalamu yosaloledwa idayikidwa pa imodzi mwa malo olipira omwe ali kutsogolo kwa Hotel Preston yomwe idapangidwa kuti izikopera zomwe zidayikidwa mu terminal. Zomwe zinakopedwa ndi pulogalamuyi zinali ndi data yamakhadi olipira - kuphatikiza dzina la mwini makhadi, nambala ya akaunti yolipira, tsiku lotha ntchito yamakhadi, ndi nambala yotsimikizira mkati - za alendo ena omwe adagwiritsa ntchito khadi yolipirira pamalowa kuyambira pa Julayi 12, 2016 mpaka August 3, 2016. Makhadi omwe amagwiritsidwa ntchito pa webusaiti ya Hotel Preston sanakhudzidwe.
Hotel Preston imayamikira ubale womwe uli nawo ndi alendo ake ndipo imamvetsetsa kufunikira koteteza zidziwitso zamakhadi olipira. Hotel Preston yathetsa nkhaniyi, ndipo ikupitiriza kugwira ntchito ndi kampani yowona zazamakompyuta kuti ipititse patsogolo chitetezo cha machitidwe ake kuti izi zisamachitikenso. Kuphatikiza apo, Hotel Preston ikupitilizabe kuthandizira kufufuza kwazamalamulo. Kwa alendo omwe angadziwike kuti adagwiritsa ntchito khadi lawo lolipira pamalo omwe akhudzidwa pawindo lomwe lili pachiwopsezo komanso omwe Hotel Preston ili ndi adilesi kapena imelo, Hotel Preston itumiza kalata kapena kutumiza imelo kwa iwo. Hotel Preston yakhazikitsanso malo oimbira odzipereka kuti ayankhe mafunso aliwonse omwe alendo omwe akhudzidwa angakhale nawo.
Kuti mumve zambiri za chochitikachi, chonde pitani patsamba la Hotel Preston.
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- For those guests that can be identified as having used their payment card at the affected terminal during the at-risk window and for whom Hotel Preston has a mailing address or email address, Hotel Preston will be mailing a letter or sending an email to them.
- The data copied by the program included payment card data – including cardholder name, payment card account number, card expiration date, and internal verification code – of certain guests who used a payment card at this one terminal during the period from July 12, 2016 to August 3, 2016.
- The investigation identified signs that an unauthorized program was installed on one of the payment terminals at Hotel Preston’s front-desk designed to copy data as it was input into the terminal.
