{"id":845,"date":"2015-12-02T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fraud.flywheelsites.com\/hilton_breach\/"},"modified":"2020-11-09T07:31:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T07:31:50","slug":"hilton_breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/hilton_breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilton breach &#8211; Fraud.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"hilton_crop.jpg\" alt=\"hilton_crop.jpg\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hotel giant\u00a0<\/span><span>Hilton<\/span><span>\u00a0Worldwide (operator of\u00a0<\/span><span>Hilton<\/span><span>\u00a0Hotels, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Waldorf Astoria, and others) was the latest in a series of hotel breaches including<span>\u00a0Starwood Hotels, Trump Hotel Collection, Mandarin Oriental, and White Lodging.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--content_break--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Announced on:<\/strong>\u00a0November 24, 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description of breach:<\/strong>\u00a0According to the chain, m<span>alware may have been present on some point-of-sale systems over a 17-week period, from November 18 to December 5, 2014 or April 21 to July 27, 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Information exposed:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s unclear at this time how many payment cards were affected, but official word from the company is that the compromised PII includes \u201ccardholder names, payment card numbers, security codes and expiration dates, but no addresses, personal identification numbers (PINs), or\u00a0Hilton\u00a0HHonors account information.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.hiltonworldwide.com\/index.cfm\/misc\/guestupdate\/frequently-asked-questions\">Hilton<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Affected customers:<\/strong>\u00a0Unknown<\/p>\n<p><strong>Official information from Hilton:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.hiltonworldwide.com\/index.cfm\/misc\/guestupdate\/hilton-worldwide-guest-update%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/news.hiltonworldwide.com\/index.cfm\/misc\/guestupdate\/hilton-worldwide-guest-update\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.t-mobile.com\/landing\/experian-data-breach-faq.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Help for victims:<\/strong>\u00a0<span>Hilton is offering one year of free credit monitoring through AllClear. You may sign up online at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/hiltonworldwide.allclearid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hiltonworldwide.allclearid.com<\/a>\u00a0<span>or by phone by calling 1-855-270-9191 (U.S. &amp; Canada) and +1 512-201-2188 (outside U.S. &amp; Canada).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>More coverage of the breach:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2015\/11\/hilton-acknowledges-credit-card-breach\/\">KrebsOnSecurity<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NULL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraud.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}