InterContinental Hotels Group said earlier this year that about a dozen of its hotels had been infected with credit-card stealing malware — it turns out, the number was around 100 times that.
The hotel group, which operates Holiday Inn, Kimpton, and several other brands, has now released details on the broader scope of the security breach. “Approximately 1,200 IHG-branded franchise hotel locations in the Americas were affected,” a company spokesperson tells The Verge.
And that number could be higher. KrebsOnSecurity, which broke news of this breach back in December, points out that IHG hasn’t inspected all of its hotels yet — some of its hotels are franchises, and it’s...
