Vending machine company announces major data breach

[JRViejo]

Vacationland Vendors, a company that supplies vending machines and games to entertainment venues, has disclosed a data breach affecting about 40,000 people who visited waterpark resorts in Wisconsin and Tennessee between December 2008 and May 2011.

In a statement, Vacationland Vendors said that an unknown intruder had broken into certain parts of its point-of-sale systems used to process payment-card transactions at Wilderness Resorts locations in Tennessee and in the city of Wisconsin Dells, Wis. The statement does not specify how many people were affected by the breach, but a report in The Credit Union Times Web site pegged the number at 40,000 victims.

Computerworld Article by Jaikumar Vijayan.