Credit Card fraud increasing at hotels
Credit card hackers steal credit data from the hotel industry more than any other industry. The study, conducted by Trustwave’s SpiderLabs an information security company, found that out of the 218 cases of data-breach investigations from 24 different countries 38% of attacks occurred on hotels. Further, it took an average of 156 days for the hotel to realize that security had been breached.
Credit card information is constantly under fire because it is the fastest way for thieves to grab real cash, according to Nicholas Percoco, senior vice president of Trustwaves’s SpiderLabs said.
The study also found that the thieves in the data-breach investigations targeted credit card information in 98% of all data breaches.
Financial Service companies, retail stores, and the food and beverage industries were the three next highest targeted industries at 19%, 14.2% and 13% respectively.
