Holiday Inn Reports Massive Credit Card Data Breach; Wisconsin Hotels Affected

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.

They discovered that malware on its credit card processing systems tracked data from customers' transactions, including guests' names, credit card numbers, expiration dates and internal verification code. Customers who believe they may have been affected should check their credit card statements for unusual activity or fraudulent purchases.

If you've been a customer at one of the group's hotels during that time period and believe your credit card information might have been stolen, IHG has posted an easily searchable list of compromised hotels and the timeframes during which the information was vulnerable.

IHG hired a cybersecurity firm to investigate the incident. While malware was not removed from the hotels' systems until the investigation in February and March of 2017, the group has found no evidence that any breaches occurred at Dec. 29.

The group's hotels had begun moving to use Secure Payment Solutions, a program that encrypts customer credit card information, before the incident began.

Here are the affected hotels in Wisconsin

Staybridge Suites
Eau Claire - Altoona
1515 Bluestem Blvd.
Altoona

Holiday Inn Express
Eau Claire North
12858 26th Avenue
Chippewa Falls

Holiday Inn Express
Fond Du Lac
55 Holiday Lane
Fond Du Lac

Staybridge Suites
Milwaukee Airport South
9575 South 27th Street
Franklin

Holiday Inn Express
Hudson-I-94
1200 Gateway Boulevard
Hudson

Holiday Inn Express
Janesville-I-90 & Us Hwy 14
3100 Wellington Place
Janesville

Candlewood Suites
Madison - Fitchburg
5421 Caddis Bend
Madison

Holiday Inn Express
Milwaukee Airport
1400 W. Zellman Court
Milwaukee

Staybridge Suites
Milwaukee West-Oconomowoc
1141 Blue Ribbon Drive
Oconomowoc

Holiday Inn Express
Oshkosh-Sr 41
2251 Westowne Avenue
Oshkosh

Holiday Inn
Pewaukee-Milwaukee West
N14 W24140 Tower Place
Pewaukee

Holiday Inn Express
Racine Area (I-94 At Exit 333)
13339 Hospitality Court
Sturtevant

Holiday Inn Express
Watertown
101 Aviation Way
Watertown

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