NEW YORK – Upscale hotel chain Mandarin Oriental says it is investigating a potential credit card breach at its hotels.

“Unfortunately ********* of this nature are increasingly becoming an industrywide concern,” the company said in an emailed statement. Mandarin Oriental said it is co-ordinating with credit card agencies and forensic specialists. The company didn’t disclose how many hotels were affected nor how many customers reported fraudulent charges on their credit cards.

Mandarin Oriental operates hotels across the ***** including Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, New York, Miami, San Francisco, Prague, Boston, *********, Macau and *********.

The breach was first reported by cybersecurity news website KrebsOnSecurity.