A Hungarian citizen pleaded guilty today to intentionally causing damage by transmitting a malicious code to Marriott International Corporation computers and to threatening to reveal confidential information obtained from the company’s computers if Marriott did not offer him a job. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced the guilty…
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Marriott Vacation Club Intl reports data loss involving paper records
On December 27, Marriott Ownership Resorts (d/b/a Marriott Vacation Club International) learned that _____ timeshare maintenance fee payment slips that had been processed by _____________ Bank were in a box that had been damaged in transit to Marriott’s corporate offices by major overnight shipping service, ________ and that some of the payment slips had been…
Fourth Circuit Holds Statements About Importance of Data Security Not Actionable
Amy Heath and Eric Bosset of Covington and Burling write: The Fourth Circuit’s opinion last week in In re Marriott International, Inc., — F.4th —-, No. 21-1802 (4th Cir. Apr. 21, 2022), could prove useful to companies facing data breach class actions. Following a data breach of the Starwood guest reservation system, Marriott investors brought securities…
330k Payment Cards and $38m in Gift Cards Stolen in Online Gift Shop Incident
In February 2021, a threat actor sold 895,000 stolen gift cards on a top-tier Russian-language forum. The gift cards had an approximate value of $38 million, and allegedly came from more than 3,000 top name brand companies such as AirBnB, Amazon, American Airlines, Chipotle, Dunkin Donuts, Marriott, Nike, Subway, Target, and Walmart. The auction opened…
Crypto Firm hacked for $1.4M reimburses users for stolen BTC and ETH
Varsha Saraogi reports: … In the past year, even established companies such as Twitter, Marriott International and SolarWinds were victims of laptop-wielding larcenists losing millions of resources and user data. Another such firm was Spain-based crypto trading firm 2gether where hackers stole roughly €1.2 m worth of cryptocurrency from its customers’ investment accounts. […] Now,…
Cyber Consulting Firms Get Tied Up in Post-Breach Lawsuits
Jake Holland and Andrea Vittorio report: Cybersecurity consultants could be on the hook for data breaches at companies they contract with after two recent court rulings in consumer class actions. Accenture Plc’s U.S. unit in October failed to escape claims made against the consultant in a consumer lawsuit over a hack of Marriott International Inc.’s hotel reservations database….