Data Breach Sunday: Super 8’s Garbage Mistake

March 30, 2008

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A Super 8 Motel in Lamar, Colorado has some explaining to do.

At least three boxes of credit card receipts from the Motel were found in the local landfill. The receipts had customers’ account numbers, names. addresses, and signatures. Oops!

A clerk at the hotel said that that is not their normal procedure to throw these things away and she is “sure it was accidental”. If it was just 1 box maybe, but it was 3 boxes!

Hotels are particularly sensitive because you have to provide them with much more information than a normal transaction- name, address, credit card #, employer if you are travelling on business, maybe a drivers license or license plate number.

Next time you are staying at a hotel ask them what they do with this stuff you are signing. You might be surprised at the answer.

(Another surprise is that this was all uncovered by a Lamar man. I am not going to ask what he was doing digging around at the landfill).

Source: KKTV

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