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Best Western Rebuts Claims of Massive Data Breach

2008-08-27 13:45:00 by Associated Press in Wired Security
 
Best Western International and the Sunday Herald newspaper of Scotland are duking it out over a story which reports that a hacker stole the records of 8 million customers from the hotel chain's global network in the "the greatest cyber-heist in world history." Best Western says 10 people were affected at one hotel
 
Tags: western, hotel chain, western international, hotel, sunday herald newspaper, global network, million customers, world history, story
 
 
 
 
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Best Western Hotel Online Booking Breached, 8 Million Victims In Personal Data Theft

2008-08-25 13:57:47 by CyberInsecure in CyberInsecure.com
 
Criminal gang has stolen the identities of an estimated eight million people in a hacking raid that could ultimately net more than 2.8billion in illegal funds. Thursday night, an unknown hacker, possibly indian, successfully breached the IT defences of the Best Western Hotel groups online booking system and sold details of how to access it
 
Tags: western hotel, unknown hacker, possibly indian, thursday night, million people, online, ultimately net, criminal gang, illegal funds
 
 
 
 
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Best Western refutes story claiming 8 million customer records were breached

2008-08-25 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The Best Western hotel chain said that a story published by a Scottish newspaper, reporting that it had been hit by a massive system intrusion, was inaccurate and 'grossly unsubstantiated
 
Tags: massive system intrusion, western hotel chain, scottish newspaper, story, grossly, hit
 
 
 
 
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Best Western says data breach even smaller than first thought

2008-08-26 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The Best Western hotel chain now says that a system intrusion exposed the data of just 10 guests -- a far cry from the 8 million stolen records reported by a Scottish newspaper
 
Tags: western hotel chain, scottish newspaper, data, system intrusion, million, records, cry, guests
 
 
 
 
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Best Western downplays data breach

2008-08-26 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
Best Western International has acknowledged it suffered a data breach but says the number of customers affected is a dozen or less, not 8 million
 
Tags: data breach, western international, million, customers
 
 
 
 
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Best Western forced to play defense on data breach disclosure

2008-08-28 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A dispute between Best Western and a Scottish newspaper over the scope of a data breach highlights the need for companies to get out in front on disclosures of data breaches
 
Tags: data breach highlights, scottish newspaper, western, data breaches, front, companies, dispute, disclosures, scope
 
 
 
 
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Best Western Forced to Play Defense on Breach Disclosure

2008-09-01 07:33:25 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
A dispute between Best Western and a Scottish newspaper over the scope of a data breach at the hotel chain highlighted the need from companies to get out in front on breach disclosures, rather than being forced into damage-control mode
 
Tags: hotel chain, scottish newspaper, western, breach disclosures, damage-control mode, data breach, front, companies, dispute
 
 
 
 
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40,000 BlueCross BlueShield members notified of lost laptop

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2008-03-11 15:31:27 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Western New York Victims Healthcare members Number Affected 40,000 Types of Data Names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, employer group names, and health insurance identifier numbers Breach Description Blue-Cross Blue-Shield of Western New York says it is notifying tens of thousands of its members about identity theft...
 
Tags: sensitive personal information, personal information, information, confidential information, laptop, information owners, breach description, breach, security breach
 
 
 
 
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Chinese Hacktivists Waging People's Information Warfare Against CNN

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2008-04-22 02:25:00 by HASH0x8b20ee4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...western media, but against the lies and fabricated stories in the media ", " We are not against the western people, but against the prejudice from the western society.! " messages According to forum postings however, now that they've sent a signal, the attitude is shifting from attacking CNN to Western media in general. Thankfully, just like...
 
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