Okemo Credit Card Breach

Ludlow, Green Mountain State - April 1, 2008

People on the inclines of Okemo Mountain had a batch to smiling about Tuesday.

"It is a springtime skiing day, I don't cognize what the temperature is out, 50 something, it is beautiful, we are having a blast," said skier Toilet Thomas.

But, it's not all good news on the mountain. Officials state hackers broke into the resort's computing machine web and gained entree to one thousands of recognition cards. The information was stolen during a two-week period in February and a similar breach occurred in March 2006.

"All points of sale. Whether is was person reserving a room for a hereafter day of the month in that clip period, or whether is was person here on place purchasing lift tickets, or a meal, about 40,000 minutes are what we are talking about," explained Okemo's Bonnie MacPherson.

Rob Edward Fitzgerald is a computing machine forensics expert.

"If companies aren't monitoring their data, and many of them are not, we don't know, as an industry, how many onslaughts are happening or how many drudges are happening," said Fitzgerald. "The manner we happen out right now is delay for consumers to name and complain."

He states that protecting individual business relationships should be a day-to-day job.

"The figure 1 thing consumers can make is be diligent. Literally travel online, depository financial institution bank check your recognition card balances, check your bank accounts. Keep your business relationships to a lower limit so they're manageable. Then if you surmise fraud, immediately reach the local police force and recognition bureaus and set a recognition freezing on your account."

But other consumer simply seek to avoid recognition card game all together-- using cash, or debit entry card game where only a certain amount of money is available.

"If the money is not there to endorse it up it is atrocious difficult for person to steal from your account," said Thomas.

Of the one thousands credits card game that have got been compromised, Okemo is aware of no deceitful complaints to any of them.

- WCAX News