back to article If you've stayed at a Holiday Inn you may have lost more than a good night's sleep (like maybe your bank card)

In February, Intercontinental Hotels Group alerted customers that some of its US locations had been infected with credit-card-stealing malware. Now it has admitted the cyber-outbreak is much worse than first thought. IHG, which owns brands like Holiday Inn and Crown Plaza, has warned that around 1,200 of its hotels across the …

  1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge

    Franchise?

    "Since it is a franchise operation it's up to the hotel owner to install the more secure system,"

    So the franchisor can't tell the franchisee what to do? Maybe the franchisor needs to be updating it's franchise contract to include some security requirements along with the branding requirements. After all, it's franchise name which gets sullied (and maybe sued) when things like this happen.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Cool

    The hookers and blow charges can be put down to plausible deniability...

  3. adam payne

    "The infections were spotted on September 29, 2016 but the infections weren't cleared up until March 2017, and some hotels might still have a problem."

    How long? seriously?

  4. DontFeedTheTrolls
    Pirate

    So let me get this straight. They knew there was a problem in September yet they continued to process customers cards through October, November, December and January without advising customers.

    Presumably their Card Acquirer is going to hold them responsible for ALL customer card losses?

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Holiday Inn Express, Enterprise, Alabama

    I love the fact that one of their older hotel owners felt the need to apply the fix the same day it was released.

    1. Warm Braw

      Re: Holiday Inn Express, Enterprise, Alabama

      And in the long-standing feud between Springfield and Shelbyville both failed equally miserably (at 3 months vulnerability*).

      [*KY and MO on this occasion].

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