Cyberattack brings down InterContinental Hotels' booking systems
IHG is a massive operation, running 6,028 hotels and 882,897 rooms in more than 100 countries. It has about 325,000 employees and included in its brands are Regent, InterContinental Hotels and Resorts, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express, Candlewood Suites, Atwell Suites, and Even Hotels.
This isn't the first time IHG has been hit by a cyberattack. A network security breach in 2016 impacted the company for about three months, with IHG officials admitting in April 2017 that 1,200 hotels were affected by the intrusion. In that snafu, attackers deployed malware that accessed payment card data that was then used make fraudulent payments with cloned cards.a class-lawsuit brought against it, with the amount capped at $1.55 million.
Any company that is part of the larger travel ecosystem is an interesting targeted for sophisticated hacking teams, according to Aaron Turner, CTO of SaaS Protect at cybersecurity firm Vectra.The Register
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