Hackers have compromised a computer system at a ski resort and thousands of credit card files may have been exposed. Okemo Mountain Resort is reporting the security breach:

“…The ski resort said Monday that hackers broke into its computer network and potentially gained access to credit card data from 28,168 transactions between Feb. 7 and Feb. 22 and 18,401 credit cards between January and March 2006.”

link: Okemo Mountain Resort target of credit card breach

For an identity thief, this is a lucrative data base. The ski resort customers would be a data base which would have significant spending activity. As such, there may be frequent activity on these credit cards and additional activity on these cards would not arouse suspicion. This data breach is reported as covering an extended period of time. It would be prudent for anyone who has been at this resort to take the necessary identity theft precautions.

Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
FlyingHamster: http://flyinghamster.com/

Tags: data breach, privacy, security, identity theft, okemo mountain resort, credit cards, hackers