Wyndham Settles with FTC Over Data Breaches
Wyndham Worldwide settled with the Federal Trade Commission, after the agency charged Wyndham with using security practices that “unfairly exposed the payment card information of hundreds of thousands of consumers.”
Three separate cyber-attacks breached customers’ credit card data between 2008 and 2010.
As per the settlement, Wyndham has agreed to establish a new information security program that must be in place for 20 years, as well as conduct annual audits. The company will not be fined.
