CHICAGO—Hyatt Hotels has been breached again. The company said 41 properties across 11 countries were affected between March 18 and July 2.
Hyatt said its cyber security team discovered signs of unauthorized access to payment card information from cards manually entered or swiped at the front desk of certain Hyatt-managed locations, KrebsOnSecurity reported.
“Upon discovery, we launched a comprehensive investigation to understand what happened and how this occurred, which included engaging leading third-party experts, payment card networks and authorities,” the company said in a statement, according to Krebs. “Hyatt’s layers of defense and other cybersecurity measures helped to identify and resolve the issue. This incident affects a small percentage of total payment cards used at the affected hotels during the at-risk dates.”
The hotel chain said the incident affected payment card information – cardholder name, card number, expiration date and internal verification code. It added there is no indication that any other information was involved, Krebs stated.
In late 2015, Hyatt announced that for about four months that year hackers had gained access to credit card systems at 250 properties in 50 different countries.