New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced that Donald Trump’s hotel chain, Trump Hotel Collection, will pay $50,000 in fines and improve security measures after a series of 2014 and 2015 breaches, The Detroit News reports. The hacks compromised over 70,000 credit cards scanned in readers from branches around the country, with the company discovering the first round of breaches in mid-2015 and failing to tell customers until four months later, an illegal act in New York, the report states. “Unfortunately, cyber criminals seeking consumer data have recently infiltrated the systems of many organizations including almost every major hotel company,” the company said in a statement. “Safeguarding our customers’ data is a top priority for the company, and we will continue taking actions to do so.”
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