DataBreaches.Net

Menu
  • About
  • Breach Notification Laws
  • Privacy Policy
  • Transparency Report
Menu

Wyndham Vacation Resorts reports an insider breach

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Dissent

As if Wyndham didn’t have enough problems from a number of breaches it experienced a few years ago, it seems that they may have had an insider breach, too.

In a report to the Maryland Attorney General dated March 12,  Stratis Pridgeon, Group Vice President of Legal Services for Wyndham Vacation Ownership, Inc. (which includes its subsidiary Wyndham Vacation Resorts, Inc.), writes that on or about January 18, they were notified by Orlando Florida police that a  then-current employee had been arrested and tied to fraudulent credit card purchases.  Wyndham terminated the employee the next day and their investigation suggested that he may have manually recorded customers’ credit card numbers during telephone calls in a private ledger he maintained.  The employee was arrested on January 16.

Two Maryland residents may have been affected, but Wyndham does not report the total number of customers whose card data may have been recorded by or misused by the employee or whether the employee may have provided the information to others as well.

Related posts:

  • FTC Files Complaint Against Wyndham Hotels For Failure to Protect Consumers’ Personal Information
  • Wyndham caves, settles charges with FTC (updated)
  • Transcript of Oral Argument in FTC v. Wyndham
  • Commentary: Repeated insider breaches at TD Bank should trigger federal regulator investigation (update 1)
Category: Business SectorID TheftInsider

Post navigation

← Calvert Internal Medicine notifies employees of possible compromise of their SSN, payroll info
Emmorton Associates notifies patients after locked file cabinet with counseling records broken into →

Now more than ever

"Stand with Ukraine:" above raised hands. The illustration is in blue and yellow, the colors of Ukraine's flag.

Search

Browse by Categories

Recent Posts

  • Hacker helped kill FBI sources, witnesses in El Chapo case, according to watchdog report
  • Texas Centers for Infectious Disease Associates Notifies Individuals of Data Breach in 2024
  • Battlefords Union Hospitals notifies patients of employee snooping in their records
  • Alert: Scattered Spider has added North American airline and transportation organizations to their target list
  • Northern Light Health patients affected by security incident at Compumedics; 10 healthcare entities affected
  • Privacy commissioner reviewing reported Ontario Health atHome data breach
  • CMS warns Medicare providers of fraud scheme
  • Ex-student charged with wave of cyber attacks on Sydney uni
  • Detaining Hackers Before the Crime? Tamil Nadu’s Supreme Court Approves Preventive Custody for Cyber Offenders
  • Potential Cyberattack Scrambles Columbia University Computer Systems

No, You Can’t Buy a Post or an Interview

This site does not accept sponsored posts or link-back arrangements. Inquiries about either are ignored.

And despite what some trolls may try to claim: DataBreaches has never accepted even one dime to interview or report on anyone. Nor will DataBreaches ever pay anyone for data or to interview them.

Want to Get Our RSS Feed?

Grab it here:

https://databreaches.net/feed/

RSS Recent Posts on PogoWasRight.org

  • Hacker helped kill FBI sources, witnesses in El Chapo case, according to watchdog report
  • Germany Wants Apple, Google to Remove DeepSeek From Their App Stores
  • Supreme Court upholds Texas law requiring age verification on porn sites
  • Justices nix Medicaid ‘right’ to choose doctor, defunding Planned Parenthood in South Carolina
  • European Commission publishes its plan to enable more effective law enforcement access to data
  • Sacred Secrets: The Biblical Case for Privacy and Data Protection
  • Microsoft’s Departing Privacy Chief Calls for Regulator Outreach

Have a News Tip?

Email: Tips[at]DataBreaches.net

Signal: +1 516-776-7756

Contact Me

Email: info[at]databreaches.net

Mastodon: Infosec.Exchange/@PogoWasRight

Signal: +1 516-776-7756

DMCA Concern: dmca[at]databreaches.net
© 2009 – 2025 DataBreaches.net and DataBreaches LLC. All rights reserved.