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Subway UK has disclosed that a hacked system used for marketing campaigns is responsible for the malware-laden phishing emails sent to customers yesterday. Starting yesterday, Subway UK customers received strange emails from ‘Subcard’ about a Subway order that was placed. Read More …
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has fined Marriott £18.4 million over a 2014 data breach, heavily reducing the penalty originally planned due to COVID-19 disruption. The Marriot hotel group was subject to a 2014 data breach impacting the Starwood resort Read More …
US-based ski and golf resort operator Boyne Resorts has suffered a cyberattack by the WastedLocker operation that has impacted company-wide reservation systems. Boyne Resorts owns and operates eleven properties located in the USA and Canada and has 11,000 employees. Many Read More …
The card details of more than three million customers of Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, the largest barbecue restaurant chain in the US, have been posted this week on a carding and fraud marketplace known as Joker’s Stash. The discovery was made Read More …
Hotel chain Marriott International has today announced that it has been hit by a second data breach exposing the personal details of “up to approximately 5.2 million guests”. The breach, which began in mid-January 2020 and was discovered at the Read More …
The personal details of more than 10.6 million users who stayed at MGM Resorts hotels have been published on a hacking forum this week. Besides details for regular tourists and travelers, included in the leaked files are also personal and Read More …
It seems that any possible way cybercriminals can exploit the hospitality industry, they will. Hotels, restaurant chains, and related tourism services have been subject to a range of techniques when it comes to cybercrime; the compromise of Point-of-Sale (PoS) terminals Read More …
An unsecured database that exposed the security logs — and therefore potential cybersecurity weaknesses — of major hotels including Marriott locations has been uncovered by researchers. VpnMentor researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar published their findings on Thursday, noting that multiple hotels have Read More …
The latest malware from TA505 has been seen targeting banks, retailers and restaurants with two different versions. A new backdoor named ServHelper has been spotted in the wild, acting as both a remote desktop agent as well as a downloader Read More …
Hyatt Hotels has launched a bug bounty program in light of recent card-skimming attacks against the hospitality chain. On Wednesday, the company said the new initiative will be hosted on bug bounty program HackerOne and is designed to allow Hyatt Read More …
