Payment card info of 880k Viator customers compromised

  • 22 September 2014
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Author:  Zeljka Zorz/ HNS Managing Editor/ Posted on 22 September 2014.
 
Payment card and personal information of approximately 1.4 million Viator.com customers may have been compromised in a breach that was confirmed late last Friday.

The popular travel and tours provider has begun notifying customers of the breach.

880,000 customers may have had their payment card information (encrypted credit or debit card number, card expiration date, name, billing address and email address) and possibly their Viator account information (email address, encrypted password and Viator "nickname") compromised.

"We have no reason to believe at this time that the three or four digit code printed at the back or front of customers' cards were compromised. Additionally, debit PIN numbers are not collected by Viator and could therefore not be compromised", the company made sure to note in thenotice. Unfortunately, they didn't go into detail about the encryption used to protect the payment card information.

Additionally, some 560,000 customers may have had their account information compromised.

 
 
Help Net Security/ full article here/ http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=17391

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