Mike Isaac reports: Two men pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose, Calif., to charges of computer hacking and an extortion conspiracy on Wednesday, capping a thorny legal saga that ensnared tech companies like Uber and LinkedIn in data breach scandals. The resolution of the case comes as Americans grapple with theft and misuse…
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BASF, Siemens, Henkel, Roche target of cyber attacks
Arno Schuetze, John Miller and David Dolan report: German blue-chip companies BASF, Siemens, Henkel (HNKG_p.DE) along with a host of others said on Wednesday they had been victims of cyber attacks, confirming a German media report which said the likely culprit was a state-backed Chinese group. Public broadcaster ARD said the hackers used a type…
Major Hotel Management Company Leaks 85GB Of Security Log Data
Shane McGlaun reports: Another significant hack has happened, and this one is a hack of a hotel management company that backs some of the largest hotel chains in the world. The hotel management company in question is Pyramid Hotel Group, and it manages many Marriott locations. The company had a server that left an unsecured…
Don’t Acquire a Company Until You Evaluate Its Data Security
The new issue of Harvard Business Review has an article by Chirantan Chatterjee and D. Daniel Sokol. It begins: When Marriott International acquired Starwood in 2016 for $13.6 billion, neither company was aware of a cyber-attack on Starwood’s reservation system that dated back to 2014. The breach, which exposed the sensitive personal data of nearly 500…
TX: ID theft suspect had more than 80 stolen items
David Scott reports: … Jess Nabors, 27, was arrested July 5 at the Marriott Hotel on La Frontera Boulevard, where police say he was trying to pay for a room with a phony credit card and ID. Upon searching his person and automobile, Round Rock officers say they found 31 ID’s, 25 credit cards, 10…
White Lodging confirms another long-running payment card “suspected breach”
White Lodging, an independent hotel management company, continues to struggle to really secure customer card data. Since January 2014, when Brian Krebs reported that White Lodging card data had been compromised for most of 2013, White Lodging has attempted to harden its security. In February 2014, the firm confirmed the suspected breach of point of sales…