880,000 payment cards compromised through travel portal

It is absolutely fact that sharing the credit/debit card detail with any website is not at all secure. Whatever the best website it is they can’t claim on it is safe. If anything wrong happens is there is any penalty clause attached to it.

There is certain top company websites, they have designed the format in such a way that you need to auto renew the monthly/quarterly and annual subscription. One foolish thing one should never do is fighting with them, on we didn’t click the option for renewal.

There are 95% of the people they never take the record/print-out of what they have subscribed. Even though u have taken the printout, when you will challenge , their answer is weather we have signed or received acknowledgment. Since, the subscriber never bother to argue over the small amount what they pay for their Business or entertainment related social media accounts, in the fear of loosing the contacts and social reputation/image. 

Today’s news on 8.8 lakh credit cards information of a travel giant’s users stolen. It is true that people they generally store the credit card information in their regular travel portal, since they travel frequently. Now this comes as a disaster. It is another data breach online. After this attack the major credit card company like American Express expected to get effected with this type of Cyber-attack. Expedia revealed the hack Tuesday. It said in a statement that they had found evidence that an attacker had invaded Orbitz’s “legacy systems” between October and December last year, accessing 880,000 customer records from January 2016 and December 2017, including names, dates of birth, postal and email addresses, gender and payment card information.

Chicago-based online travel booking company Orbitz, a subsidiary of Expedia, reveals that one of its old websites has been hacked, exposing nearly 880,000 payment card numbers of the people who made purchases online. According to the company, hackers may have accessed payment card information stored on a consumer and business partner platform, along with customers' personal information, including name, address, date of birth, phone number, email address and gender.

Orbitz is currently working to notify the thousands of affected customers and plans to offer one year of free credit monitoring and identity protection service. Since, the payment card information is now in the hands of cybercriminals, customers are advised to closely monitor their credit card statements and report any unauthorised charges to the issuing bank.