Luxury hotel chain suffers credit card data breach
The Mandarin Hotel Group has confirmed that it is investigating a security breach at its hotels after receiving numerous complaints of fraudulent charges being made on its customers’ credit cards.
The luxury hotel chain has two dozen hotels around the world in major cities such as London, Paris, New York, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Macau, but it is not known yet how many of the hotels have been affected.
However, according to cybersecurity researcher Brian Krebs, banking industry sources believe the data breach dates back to December 2014 and has likely impacted “most if not all” of the seven Mandarin hotels in the US.