Administrator Lite Posted August 27, 2008 Administrator Share Posted August 27, 2008 Did a computer intrusion at a Best Western hotel in Germany open the door for a hacker to steal the records of 8 million customers and pull off "the greatest cyber-heist in world history", as a Scottish newspaper put it?Or was the incident a significantly more minor affair, affecting only 10 customers at the one facility, as claimed by Best Western International?The hotel chain and the Sunday Herald newspaper of Scotland are duking it out over the paper's story on the data breach. Best Western calls the article "grossly unsubstantiated" and "largely erroneous".The story said a hacker installed a malicious program on a computer used for reservations at a Best Western hotel, and used it to steal a database containing details on every customer who checked into one of Best Western's 1,312 European hotels since 2007.The hacker then sold the database through an "underground network operated by the Russian mafia", the story claimed. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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