Tripadvisor site coughs to card data breach for a potential 800k users

  • 23 September 2014
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By John Leyden, 23 Sep 2014
 
TripAdvisor has suffered a data breach at its Viator tour-booking and review website.
An estimated 1.4 million Viator customers are potentially affected by the compromise, which the firm admits may have exposed payment card data.
 The compromise also potentially aired the email address, password and Viator "nickname" associated with accounts. Viator only became aware of the breach after investigators looking into incidents of credit card fraud made the link that victims were also users of its site.
Viator has called in security experts to find out the extent of the breach. In the meantime it has begun notifying customers about the security problem, as a statementby the travel outfit explains.
On September 2, we were informed by our payment card service provider that unauthorized charges occurred on a number of our customers' credit cards. We have hired forensic experts, notified law enforcement and we have been working diligently and comprehensively to investigate the incident, identify how our systems may have been impacted, and secure our systems.While our investigation is ongoing, we are in the process of notifying approximately 1.4 million Viator customers, who had some form of information potentially affected by the compromise.
 
 
The Register/ full article here/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/23/tripadvisor_subsidiary_viator_breach_card_fraud_link/

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