Data Breach at Sabre Hits Four Seasons and Other Hotels
Skift Take
Sometimes it really does pay to book direct. At least in this case, customers who booked direct weren't impacted. Those who booked on third-party channels like online travel agencies weren't as lucky.
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts and Trump Hotels are the latest hotel companies to go through a data security breach, although this time the breach took place via their third-party hotel reservations provider, Sabre.
[Editor's Note: Other hotels impacted by the data breach as of July 17 now include Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants and Red Lion Hotels Corporation.]
The period during which the breach took place was from August 10, 2016 to March 9, 2017. During this time, guest information related to a subset of hotel reservations (unencrypted payment card information,
