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, Bloomberg News reported yesterday. 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 yesterday. "Wyndham's privacy policy misrepresented the security measures that the company and its subsidiaries took to protect consumers' personal information,' the FTC said in a complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Arizona. The breaches led to more than $10.6 million in "fraud losses," the FTC said.
