Orbitz says a possible data breach has affected 880,000 credit cards

The Verge ---------- Travel booking website Orbitz has announced that it discovered a potential data breach that exposed information for thousands of customers, as reported by Engadget. The incident, discovered by the company on March 1st, may have exposed information tied to about 880,000 credit cards. The consumer data in question is from an older booking platform, where information may have been accessed between October and December 2017. Orbitz partner platform data, such as travel booked via Amex Travel, submitted between January 1st, 2016 and December 22nd, 2017 may have also been compromised. The Expedia-owned company says that names, payment card information, dates of birth, email addresses, physical billing addresses, gender, and phone numbers may have been accessed, but it doesn’t yet have “direct evidence” that any information was taken from the website. To learn more click on the picture below to read the article.