NEW YORK — Customer credit and debit card numbers may have been stolen at seven ***** hotels, including one in Toronto, after its payment systems were hacked for over a year.

The ***** Hotel Collection said on its website that hackers gained access to its systems between May 2014 and June 2015 at the front desk of those hotels. Hotel restaurants and gift shops were also hacked.

The hotel operator said an independent forensic ************* has not found any evidence of customer’s information being misused. The company is offering affected customers a year of free identity theft protection.

The potential thefts occurred at the ***** International Toronto, ***** SoHo New York, ***** International New York, ***** National Doral in Miami, ***** International Chicago,***** International Waikiki in Hawaii and the ***** International Hotel and Tower *********.

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***** Hotel said it is working with the U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of ************* to help “catch these criminals and prosecute them to the full extent of the law.”

Other luxury hotel chains, such as the Mandarin Oriental, have reported data breaches this year.