MalwareHospitalityHospitalityRansomwareData ExfiltratedCustomer Data InvolvedPCIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)LowContained

Hyatt Place New York / Chelsea Hotel

bd_c0076be75d103666 · schema v1 · pii pii-v1

Severity

Low

Discovered

—

Filed

Jan 19, 2016

To disclose

—

Affected

Not disclosed

Confidence

65%

Full breach record for Hyatt Place New York / Chelsea Hotel →2 incidents on file

Hyatt Hotels Corporation disclosed a payment card incident involving malware that collected cardholder data (name, number, expiration, verification code) from onsite payment processing systems at certain locations. The unauthorized access occurred between July 30, 2015, and December 8, 2015. Hyatt engaged third-party security experts, notified law enforcement, and offered one year of fraud detection services to affected customers.

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Incident timeline

Jul 30, 2015

Begins

Jan 19, 2016

Filed

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.ConfirmedView incident

Name: Hyatt Place New York / Chelsea Hotel
norm: hyatt place new york chelsea hotel
Domain: hyatt.com

Name: Hyatt Place New York / Chelsea Hotel
norm: hyatt place new york chelsea hotel
Domain: hyatt.com
Industry: Hospitalityllm

Discovered: —
Breach occurred: Jul 30, 2015 – Dec 8, 2015
Materiality determined: —
Notification sent: Jan 14, 2016
Affected individuals: Not disclosed
Data types: PCIFinancial accountIdentity (basic)
Attack vector: Ransomware
MITRE ATT&CK: T1486 Data Encrypted for ImpactT1052 Exfiltration Over Physical Medium
Threat actor: ExternalFinancial
Initial access: external_remote_services

During the incident: Worked with leading third-party cyber security experts to resolve the issue and strengthen the security of its systems
Notified law enforcement and the payment card networks
Changes made: Strengthened the security of its systems
Source: Quoted from the filing itself, not independently verified.

Compliance flags: — (clock not assessable for this source)

Status: No extraction artifact recorded for this disclosure.

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.

Source URL: https://consumer.sc.gov/sites/consumer/files/Documents/Business%20Resources%20Laws/Related%20Laws/Breaches/2016/HyattHotelsCorporation.pdf
DisclosureLens links to the originating regulator URL — full filing bodies are not redistributed from public surfaces (§4.5).
Filed at: Jan 19, 2016
Raw hash: 2510dba1821edde94192bcfb935964179b44afd897b37e85896352b3b7f806b5

Reporting entityHyatt Place New York / Chelsea Hotel

Victim entityHyatt Place New York / Chelsea Hotel

IncidentRansomware

Stated responseWorked with leading third-party cyber security experts to resolve the issue and strengthen the security of its systems

Complianceclock not assessable

Extraction provenanceno artifact recorded

Source provenanceconsumer.sc.gov