Customers who stayed at one of the hotels owned by international hotel conglomerate Starwood within Germany may have been victim to widespread credit card fraud, the company confirmed on Tuesday.
The New York-based company owns chains such as Sheraton, Westin and Le Méridien, and believes that some customers who carry “Miles and More” cards – a frequent flyer partnership between Lufthansa and Deutsche Kreditbank (DKB) – may have been the victim of illegal charges during their stays, daily Financial Times Deutschland reported.
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The problem may be the result of electronic failures similar to the glitch that caused banks in Germany and Spain to recall some 250,000 bank cards between July and November of 2009. The cause of the problem turned out to be a computer accessing the data.
Source: The Local (De)