Wyndham Hotels Sued by FTC Over Alleged Data Security Breach

Wyndham Worldwide Corp., the franchiser of Days Inn hotels and Super 8 motels, was sued by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over security breaches that led to more than 500,000 credit cards being compromised.

The data breaches led to fraudulent charges on customers’ accounts and the export of credit card information to an Internet domain address registered in Russia, the FTC said in a statement on its website today.