last week , which took place due to the Sabre Hospitality Solutions SynXis third-party reservation system . The hotel chain , which operates 176 cafes , 24 hotels and 11 casinos in 75 countries , said SynXis , the backbone infrastructure for reservations made through hotels and travel agencies , provided the avenue for data theftAttack.Databreachand the exposureAttack.Databreachof customer information . `` The unauthorized party first obtained accessAttack.Databreachto payment card and other reservation information on August 10 , 2016 , '' the hotel chain said. `` The last accessAttack.Databreachto payment card information was on March 9 , 2017 . '' Hard Rock Hotel & Casino properties in Biloxi , Cancun , Chicago , Goa , Las Vegas , Palm Springs , Panama Megapolis , Punta Cana , Rivera Maya , San Diego and Vallarta are all affected . According to Sabre , an `` unauthorized party gained accessAttack.Databreachto account credentials that permitted unauthorized accessAttack.Databreachto payment card information , as well as certain reservation information '' for a `` subset '' of reservations . The attacker was able to grabAttack.Databreachunencrypted payment card information for hotel reservations , including cardholder names , card numbers , and expiration dates . In some cases , security codes were also exposedAttack.Databreach, alongside guest names , email addresses , phone numbers , and addresses . In May , Sabre said an investigation into a possible breach was underway . In a quarterly SEC filing , the company said , `` unauthorized access has been shut off , and there is no evidence of continued unauthorized activity at this time . '' While Sabre has not revealed exactly how the system was breached , the company has hired third-party cybersecurity firm Mandiant to investigate . Loews Hotels also appears to be a victim of the same security failure . According to NBC , Sabre was also at fault and cyberattackers were able to slurpAttack.Databreachcredit card , security code , and password information through the booking portal . In some cases , email addresses , phone numbers , and street addresses were also allegedly exposedAttack.Databreach. According to Sabre , its software is used by roughly 36,000 hotel properties . `` Not all reservations that were viewed included the payment card security code , as a large percentage of bookings were made without a security code being provided , '' Sabre said in a statement . `` Others were processed using virtual card numbers in lieu of consumer credit cards . Sabre has notified law enforcement and the credit card brands as part of our investigation . '' If you stayed in one of these properties on the dates mentioned above , you may be at risk of identity theft should the attackers choose to sell their stolen cache of data . Sabre suggests signing up for a free credit report -- available to US consumers once a year for free -- and notify their bank of any stolen activity . However , no compensation has yet been made available . These hotel chains are far from the only ones that have suffered a data breachAttack.Databreachin recent years . Back in April , InterContinental admitted that a data breachAttack.Databreachfirst believed to be isolated to 12 properties actually harmed roughly 1,200 , resulting in the exposureAttack.Databreachof customer credit card data .