WASHINGTON -- Over a two-year period, hackers broke into computers at hotel giant Wyndham Worldwide Corp. three times and stole credit card information belonging to hundreds of thousands of customers.



Companies are afraid that going public will damage their reputations, sink stock prices or spark lawsuits.

The chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Democratic Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, is adding a provision to cybersecurity legislation that would strengthen the reporting requirement.

By RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press