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Old Nov 22, 2018 | 9:04 am
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Originally Posted by chongcao
1, Change your PIN (which you have already done)
2, Change your email, get a new email address only for IHG if necessary.
3, If your two reservations are cancellable, cancel and rebook. If not, follow step 4.
4, Call IHG Customer service again and ask to speak to FRAUD department or the specialist dealing with fraud. Explain to them the situation, and request them to cancel the 2 reservations in concern free of charge, and then make new ones based on the original terms.
5, Change your IHG PIN every 3 months thereafter.

All above steps do not guarantee you would be immune from now on. But it does add locks for the fraudsters to get back to your account too easily. It is limited prevention but hopefully it could help a little.
That does not guarantee anything.

The only solution is to remove an email so nobody can log-in online. I did that for a while, never got hacked. But also cannot book online, would have to call in.
Got tired of that so re-instated my email. Got hacked two months later.
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