Advent of wireless communication technologies, systems providing high data rates have been the watchword for researchers around the globe. In their endeavor, they found their leitmotivs being answered by a cutting edge wireless technique, Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). OFDM the magic mantra is an attractive and proven next generation wireless and radio communications to provide data rates up to 54Mbps in 5 GHz band and supporting both existing technologies like Wi-Fi, WiMAX and next generation technologies like 3G LTE and UMB. It is imperative that this widely acclaimed technology is fortified with an equally flawless security system. The following work focuses on the aforesaid, by modulating the signal through QAM, a highly bandwidth efficient modulation technique and subsequently embedding the payload on the modulated signal during the process of signal mapping. The proposed QAM-OFDM with information hiding also evaluates the system's performance via BER for different embedding levels i.e., 8, 16 & 64-bit QAM, transmitted under AWGN and random channel conditions. The results charted show encouraging patterns.