The hotel chain bearing 2016 U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s name has confirmed that its point-of-sale systems were infected by malware for more than a year. The confirmation comes about three months after the hotel chain said it was investigating reports that its POS systems had been breached. The Trump Hotel Collection, in an undated “legal notice of potential security incident” posted on its website, now warns that POS systems at seven hotels that it manages – in Chicago, Honolulu, Las Vegas, New York, Miami and Toronto – were infected with malware, potentially affecting an unspecified number of customers. “Payment card data – including payment card account number, card expiration date, security code, and cardholder name – of individuals who used a payment card at the hotel between May 19, 2014, and June 2, 2015, may have been affected,” Trump Hotels says. It warns that attackers may have also obtained cardholders’ names at the Las Vegas and Honolulu hotels.
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