Customers of the Trump Hotel chain may soon be seeing orange, as news broke Tuesday that the chain owned by the president has been hacked, complete with credit card numbers and personal details getting stolen.

The hack of the Trump Hotel chain, like the Hard Rock and Loews Hotel chains before it, was blamed on a gaping security hole in Sabre Corp.’s Hospitality Solutions SynXis Central Reservation System.

According to a statement from the company, the hack “did not affect Trump Hotels’ systems,” but the hackers did manage to obtain “Trump Hotels-related payment card and other reservation information.” That included guest names, email, phone numbers, addresses and other information, though the company added that Social Security numbers and passport information were not accessed.

Like Hard Rock and Loews Hotels before it, the hackers gained access to Trump Hotel information between last Aug. 10 and March 9 of this year. Sabre Corp. only informed the chain of the hack June 5. 

“The unauthorized party was able to access payment card information for some hotel reservations at certain properties listed here, including cardholder name, payment card number, card expiration date, and potentially card security code,” Trump Hotels added in its statement.

The chain advised guests to “remain vigilant for incidents of fraud and identity theft by regularly reviewing account statements and monitoring free credit reports for any unauthorized activity.”

Sabre provides booking software that is used by travel agents around the world, along with 400 airlines, 220,000 hotels, 42 car rental brands, 38 rail providers and 17 cruise lines.  Given yet another disclosure of a hotel using Sabre software being hacked, this may actually be the tip of the iceberg in terms of a widespread hacking campaign that may involve many other hotel chains as well.

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