Hotels.com credit-card numbers stolen

"The names and credit-card numbers of 243,000 Hotels.com customers were on a laptop computer stolen from an employee of accounting firm Ernst & Young, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Hotels.com, which is owned by Expedia (Research) and Ernst & Young, its auditor, began notifying customers that their information was stolen last week.

Ernst & Young added that the computer was password-protected there was no indication the information had been accessed or misused."

Strange that E&Y decided to report this - perhaps we have not heard the last part of this story yet?

Source: CNN