Security News

Data of 10.6m MGM hotel guests posted for sale on Dark Web forum
2020-02-21 11:55

The personal data of 10,683,188 MGM hotel guests that leaked sometime in or before 2017 was posted for sale on the Dark Web this week, ZDNet reports. ZDNet called hotel guests whose details were included in the data dump and found that, while some of the phone numbers had been disconnected, many were still valid, as "The right person answered the phone."

We know what you did last summer: MGM's hotel spinoff lost 10.7m guest records and now they're on hacker forums
2020-02-20 18:31

Casino and hotel chain MGM Resorts lost almost 10.7 million guest records last summer, including the data of Jack Dorsey and Justin Bieber, which was duly posted to hacker forums. According to soon-to-be-launched leak tracker Under the Breach, which spotted the post this week, the records included email addresses along with names, phone numbers, addresses and dates of birth.

News Wrap: Hotel Robot Hacks, FTC Stalkerware Crackdown
2019-10-25 15:52

From hacking hotel room robots to crackdowns on stalkerware apps, Threatpost editors break down this week's top news stories.

Robot Hotel says sorry about the buggy bedside bots
2019-10-24 14:39

Japan's Henn na Hotel says it's "modified" the bots so pervs can't exploit the ability to run unsigned code and spy on future guests.

Bedside Hotel Robot Hacked to Stream In-Room Video
2019-10-23 19:18

An unsecured NFC tag opens a door to trivial exploitation of robots inside Japanese hotels.

Messed Western: Vuln hunters say hotel giant's Autoclerk code exposed US soldiers' info, travel plans, passwords...
2019-10-22 23:58

Leaked travel details revealed US military personnel and trips A security team for review site vpnMentor, led by Israeli researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, recently found a publicly accessible...

Japanese hotel chain sorry that hackers may have watched guests through bedside robots
2019-10-22 17:00

Can we at least turn the thing around before we... y'know? Japanese hotel chain HIS Group has apologised for ignoring warnings that its in-room robots were hackable to allow pervs to remotely view...

Magecart Hackers Target Mobile Users of Hotel Websites
2019-09-19 12:37

A Magecart threat actor has compromised the websites of two hotel chains to inject scripts targeting Android and iOS users, Trend Micro’s security researchers warn. read more

KNOB turns up the heat on Bluetooth encryption, hotels leak guest info, city hands $1m to crook, and much, much more
2019-08-19 10:08

Spec design flaw stiffs security of gizmos Roundup Let's run through all the bits and bytes of security news beyond what we've already covered. Also, don't forget our articles from this year's...

Choice Hotels Breach Showcases Need for Shared Responsibility Model
2019-08-15 17:04

700,000 customer records were exposed after being housed on a vendor's server that lacked appropriate security.