Cyberattack Hits Hotels in Fredericksburg Area

FREDERICKSBURG, VA — Four area hotels in the area apparently were the sites of cyber fraud late last year. InterContinental Hotels Group, a parent company of Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and Candlewood Suites and other hotels, has announced that more than 1,000 of its locations may have been subject to a breach of customer credit card information between Sept. 29 and Dec. 29, 2016.

The four area hotels: Holiday Inn Express in Stafford, 560 Warrenton Road; Candlewood Suites, 4821 Crossings Court in Spotsylvania; Holiday Inn Express, 787 Madison Road in Culpeper; and Holiday Inn Express, 410 Holiday Court in Warrenton.

The breach was originally reported in February, but at that time the company said only about a dozen hotels were subject to the cyberattack. The conglomerate discovered malware on its credit card processing systems tracked data from customers' transactions, including guests' names, credit card numbers, expiration dates and internal verification code.

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Customers who believe they may have been affected should check their credit card statements for unusual activity or fraudulent purchases. IHG has posted an easily searchable list of compromised hotels and the time frames during which the information was vulnerable.

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