Mar 24th, 2011 at 11:15AM:
If you have ever rated something on TripAdvisor, you may be in for a nasty surprise in your inbox in the coming weeks. Last weekend, hackers penetrated the TripAdvisor member database and stole up to 20 million records.
In a statement issued by TripAdvisor on their site, the only information they say was impacted involved email address. TripAdvisor does not store credit card information or ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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TripAdvisor database hacked - email addresses compromised
Mar 24th, 2011 at 11:15AM:
If you have ever rated something on TripAdvisor, you may be in for a nasty surprise in your inbox in the coming weeks. Last weekend, hackers penetrated the TripAdvisor member database and stole up to 20 million records.
In a statement issued by TripAdvisor on their site, the only information they say was impacted involved email address. TripAdvisor does not store credit card information or ...Hotels top target for hackers
Feb 8th, 2010 at 2:00PM: According to online security trade publication DarkReading.com, hackers went after the hotel sector more than any other in 2009. And, they didn't get caught: it took hotels an average of 156 days to discover a security breach. A study by Trustwave's SpiderLabs of 218 security breach investigations in 24 countries found that 38 percent hit the hospitality industry, 19 percent for financial ...Best Western (Europe) becomes the victim of the largest data theft in the world (UPDATED)
Aug 24th, 2008 at 5:30PM: The European operation of the Best Western hotel chain has become the victim of a massive cyber-theft attack. By placing a "keylogger" on a corporate computer connected to their reservations system, a whopping 8 million customer records were stolen. Included in the records are names, address, phone number, credit card numbers and employment information. The records were stored for every single ...
