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10 ¦ JANUARY 4, 2021 NEWS
Sabre Reaches $2.4M Settlement
Over Massive U.S. Data Breach
By Robert Storace
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wenty-seven state attorneys general—including breach, they said, occurred between August 2016 and
from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Flor- March 2017.
ida and Pennsylvania—announced Wednesday The attorneys general called the breach
they had reached a $2.4 million settlement agreement “unacceptable.”
with Sabre Corp., whose 2016/2017 data breach ex- “Sabre had an obligation to customers to safeguard
posed the data of owners of about 1.3 million credit credit card information in its possession, and they
cards. failed. When their system was breached, Sabre took
The data breach affected Sabre Hospitality Solu- months and, in some cases, years to provide informa-
tions’ hotel booking system. The booking system, tion to permit notification to consumers, an unac-
which Sabre Corp. owns, operates the SynXis Central ceptable delay that left consumers unknowingly ex-
Reservation system that helps facilitate the booking posed,” said Connecticut Attorney General William
of hotel reservations nationwide. Tong in a statement.
The settlement agreement calls for Connecticut to Tong said the company, which was founded in
receive $174,724; Florida will receive $118,644; New 1960, also “agreed to strong protections going for-
York will get $111,783; Pennsylvania will see $85,483; ward to ensure this lapse in security and communica-
and New Jersey will benefit to the amount of $70,260. tion never occurs again.”
Some victims of the data breach weren’t notified New York Attorney General Letitia James echoed
for months or even longer, the state’s said. The data Tong, saying, “Companies need to do a better job of
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