The restaurants and valet parking operation at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites in Los Angeles may been hacked at some point between April and December of 2009.

"In a letter to customers [PDF file] on its Web site, the hotel said its point-of-sale system may have been compromised by an outside hacker," writes Computerworld's James Niccolai. "It is offering a free credit monitoring service for customers who believe they were affected."

"The Westin said it contacted law enforcement officials as soon as it learned of the breach, though it didn't say when that was," Niccolai writes. "It said it was working with investigators and the credit card companies to identify the hackers."

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