Data on 243,000 Hotels.com Customers Stolen!

Ouch! Another one in a series of horrific data losses. Some strict protocols on the use and transportation of sensitive data has got to be adopted by the industry to avoid such fiascos in the future!

"Hotels.com is warning nearly a quarter of a million customers that they may have had their credit card numbers stolen, following the theft of an unencrypted laptop belonging to the travel Web site's auditor, Ernst & Young Global."

Hotels.com Customer Data Stolen - Yahoo! News

Posted 06/05/06 by hotelguru | Filed under: E Commerce and E Business