IF You Book ANYTHING through HOTELS.COM 2002-2004

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We got a letter YESTERDAY from hotels.com. Dated May 26, 2006.

Advising us apparently one of their employees personal laptop got ripped off. Apparently customer of hotels.com from 2002 to 2004 could have had their CREDIT CARD INFORMATION COMPRISED.

Apparently hotels.com has hire the Worldwide Accounting Firm of Ernest & Young to handle their problem.

They have setup a Toll Free Number if you have any questions It is 1-866-387-2242

I have to ask why hotels.com is keeping Credit Card Info, Names, Addresses, etc. 30 days, after they have been paid for services????

Plus why are hotels.com employees keeping our records on "LAPTOPS"

Know many of you travel; around the country to attend Pool Related Events, so that is why I am sharing this info with you all

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Is this legit or a possible urban legend chain letter? This sounds too much like the employee at the VA office that took a laptop home and then it was stolen from their house and contained all the records for every Vet.

Most hotels do not retain credit card information. I would frequent a certain hotel in Vegas. Everytime I called to make a reservation they would ask for my CC#. I would tell them that it is the same and it hasn't changed. They said that they do not keep that info for security reasons. Now it makes sense what they meant.
 
TheBook said:
Is this legit or a possible urban legend chain letter? This sounds too much like the employee at the VA office that took a laptop home and then it was stolen from their house and contained all the records for every Vet.

Most hotels do not retain credit card information. I would frequent a certain hotel in Vegas. Everytime I called to make a reservation they would ask for my CC#. I would tell them that it is the same and it hasn't changed. They said that they do not keep that info for security reasons. Now it makes sense what they meant.
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I can only ASSUME it is Legit, as we got a Letter Yesterday from Hotels.com. the Letter was dated May, 26th, 2006.

i posted an 800 Number, as I thought some of you might have used the Hotels.com Service like us between 2002-2004.

Apparently Hotels.com has hire the world Wide Account Firm of Ernest & Young to handle, and audit their problem.

If you use Hotels.com between 2002 - 2004 you got a number to call. 1-866-387-2242 to get more info.

I got better thing to do than start RUMORS, or Urban Legends...
 
Ah, but are you SURE it came from hotels.com? People send out fake emails from Paypal, banks, etc. trying to get you to go to their fake website (made to look legit) and enter account info, etc.

The giveaway will be any links in the email - if they don't point back to hotels.com (and don't just look at it in the email, but look at the SOURCE of the email, the code), then it's probably bogus.

The email didn't request that you take any web-based action, did it? And can I assume that you ARE a hotels.com customer from that time period?
 
That's no worse than being a veteran. EVERY SINGLE US veteran's personal information was on a computer at some employees house a few weeks ago. All of the information was stolen. 26.5 Million people! It's not an urban legend either.
 
Hal said:
That's no worse than being a veteran. EVERY SINGLE US veteran's personal information was on a computer at some employees house a few weeks ago. All of the information was stolen. 26.5 Million people! It's not an urban legend either.
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Yah, but the thief may not even know he's got it, or what to do with it. From what I've read, the VA employee's house got broken into and it wasn't just his laptop that got snatched.

I heard something on NPR this morning about a similar situation - I can't remember the company - it wasn't hotels.com - but some employee took some work home, including customer data, and it got nicked.
 
Hal said:
That's no worse than being a veteran. EVERY SINGLE US veteran's personal information was on a computer at some employees house a few weeks ago. All of the information was stolen. 26.5 Million people! It's not an urban legend either.
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BFD I served eight years in the Army and am sure I am on that list, but I don't give a shit. Who cares, there's nothing they really can do with it. Idenity theft yeah okay that's a Red Herring...But if you want to worry about it go ahead it's your call...
 
ScottW said:
Ah, but are you SURE it came from hotels.com? People send out fake emails from Paypal, banks, etc. trying to get you to go to their fake website (made to look legit) and enter account info, etc.
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As I said it was a LETTER (Snail Mail), it also contained a reference to the LAST Four Number of my Credit Card...;)
 
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