Missouri Ski Resort Hit by Hackers

A Missouri ski resort has been hit by a little more than the usual downfall of snow: hackers.

Snow Creek ski resort in Weston and many of its credit card customers appear to have fallen prey to a cyber attack that was first detected last week, KansasCity.com reports. The company took its credit processing system off-line and warned customers to keep an eye out for suspicious activity on their credit cards.

Credit card processing companies, banks and the Secret Service soon began reporting a large number of dubious credit card transactions appeared to be linked to customers who had done business at Snow Creek.

“The Secret Service thinks we got hacked in that nanosecond before the information is encrypted,” Dave Grenier, Snow Creek’s general manager, told KansasCity. “It’s still not clear what happened.”

The company said on its website the processing systems had been breached by “by persons not associated with our business,” and the compromise could have affected customers who recently conducted business with the ski report, excluding those who bought lift tickets or other passes online.

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