Brunswick hotel data breach may have exposed 2,600 credit cards
Credit card information on up to 2,600 guests at the Brunswick Hotel and Tavern between November 2014 and July 2015 may have been exposed by malware on a computer, according to the Bangor Daily News.
The hotel’s management company notified customers of the breach in a letter dated Aug. 21. Tim Feeley, a spokesman for the Maine attorney general’s office, said in an email to the BDN that the company notified his office of the breach on Aug. 24.
Dan Flaherty, chief financial officer for Portland-based Olympia Hotel Management, told the BDN that investigators believe the malware was installed through a scam-phishing email made to look like a message from a guest.
“It was mistakenly opened up, and the malware is then designed to avoid detection from antivirus software,” Flaherty told the newspaper.
Flaherty said 2,600 guest accounts may have been affected, but investigators were not able to confirm how many actually were.
Flaherty said the breach involved names and credit card information and not other personal identification information.
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