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Hotels Lead the Industry In Credit Card Theft

Posted by kdawson on from the shred-everything dept.

katarn writes "A study released this year found that, of the credit card hacking cases last year, 38 percent involved the hotel industry. At hotels with inadequate data security, the greatest amount of credit card information can be obtained using the simplest methods. It doesn't require brilliance on the part of the hacker. Most of the chronic security breaches in the hotel industry are the result of a failure to equip, or to store or transmit this kind of data properly, and that starts with the point-of-sale credit card swiping systems."

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  1. Wait...what? by Pojut · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Hotels lead the industry in credit card theft.

    Wait...which industry? The hotel industry? So hotels lead the hotel industry in credit card theft?

    Redundant statement is redundant. Or poorly worded. Or just plain stupid.

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  2. WIFI by ZaSz-RH · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Unprotected WIFI with default-passworded routers?