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Hackers managed to breach two websites pertaining to the San Francisco International Airport in March 2020, the airport has revealed. The incident involved SFOConnect.com and SFOConstruction.com, two low-traffic websites designed to keep visitors informed on a variety of SFO-related topics, such as the COVID-19 crisis, alternate AirTrain routing, airfield operations, airport construction contracts, and the like.
The San Francisco International Airport disclosed this week two of its websites had been hacked and lead to the disclosure of some users' login credentials at both sites. "The attackers inserted malicious computer code on these websites to steal some users' login credentials," according to a message posted to both site's homepages by the SFO's Airport Information Technology and Telecommunications director.
Law firm Morgan & Morgan announced on Thursday that it has filed a class action lawsuit against Marriott over the recently disclosed data breach that has impacted as many as 5.2 million individuals. The complaint filed by Morgan & Morgan in the District of Maryland accuses Marriott of negligence, breach of contract, breach of confidence, and deceptive and unfair trade practices.
Morrisons supermarket is not liable for the actions of a disgruntled employee who deliberately leaked nearly 100,000 employees' payroll data online, Britain's Supreme Court has ruled. Supreme Court judge Lord Reed ruled: "First, the disclosure of the data on the internet did not form part of Skelton's functions or field of activities," also decreeing that previous findings by the High Court and Court of Appeal were mistaken in law.
Marriott International has suffered a new data breach in mid-January 2020, which affected approximately 5.2 million guests. "Although our investigation is ongoing, we currently have no reason to believe that the information involved included Marriott Bonvoy account passwords or PINs, payment card information, passport information, national IDs, or driver's license numbers," Marriott International stated.
Marriott International has today announced that it has suffered a data breach affecting up to 5.2 million people. When the breach was discovered at the end of February, Marriott International says it disabled those login credentials and began its investigation.
For the second time in two years, the Marriott hotel empire has suffered a major data breach. The stolen bounty includes everything cybercrooks would need to mount convincing spear-phishing campaigns: Full contact details; other personal data like company, gender and birthdays; Marriott's "Bonvoy" loyalty program account numbers and points balances; linked airline loyalty programs and numbers; and Marriott preferences such as stay/room preferences and language preferences.
Marriott on Tuesday disclosed a new data breach that could impact up to 5.2 million of its guests. Marriott says it has invalidated the compromised credentials, but the attackers may have obtained information on as many as 5.2 million individuals.
General Electric revealed last week that the personal information of some employees may have been compromised as a result of a data breach suffered by Canon Business Process Services. In a data breach notification sent to affected individuals and submitted to the California Attorney General, GE said an unauthorized party gained access to a Canon email account containing documents belonging to some of its employees.
University of Utah Health revealed last week that it discovered unauthorized access to some employee email accounts, along with a malware infection on one of its workstations. "From January 22 to February 27, 2020, we became aware that there was unauthorized access to some employees' email accounts. This unauthorized access occurred between January 7 and February 21, 2020," the hospital reveals.