Information security analytics

The travel industry has been always of great interest to cybercriminals. No wonder — the cause of that is fairly large volumes of personal and payment data processed by businesses, including those belonging to VIP visitors. Intruders aim at both individual hotels and hotel chains that operate with data of tens of thousands of people. More details you can find in our overview of the largest leaks in this industry in the first half of 2017.

Global hotel chain Hilton has reached a $700,000 settlement agreement with two states over two separate data breaches discovered in 2015 that exposed more than 360,000 payment card numbers, BankInfoSecurity.com reports.

Following up on the report of Lowyat.com roughly 46.2 million mobile phone numbers from Malaysian telcos and mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) have been leaked online. The leak includes postpaid and prepaid numbers, customer details, addresses as well as sim card information – including unique IMEI and IMSI numbers.

In a classic case of identity theft, a possibility often denied by the Centre and UIDAI, Aadhaar details of nearly 300 people were stolen and their pension money was swindled, in Hyderabad, said a report by The Logical Indian with reference to The New Indian Express.

On paper, Atef Alkhateeb was unemployed. His family lived off his wife’s nursing salary. And, it turns out, other people’s money, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.

The Reserve Bank of India has slapped a $1 million (U.S.) penalty on Yes Bank for failing to promptly notify the central bank of a 2016 data breach of its ATM network, The BankInfoSecurity reports. This is reportedly the first such penalty imposed on a bank. Many security practitioners are praising RBI for issuing the penalty, saying it calls attention to the importance of timely breach notification.

According to prosecutors, 26-year-old Kendell Rashad Bowden stole credit card information and accidentally texted his probation officer the victim's information, CorrectionsOne.com writes.

A lawyer who leaked confidential client information to his then lover admitted to professional misconduct before a disciplinary tribunal, which has called for him to be fined, The Straits Times reports.

The Dark Overlord, a hacking group known for mocking and extorting victims, has now stolen highly personal photos from a plastic surgeon in London, The Daily Beast reports.

Hillary's closest aide Huma Abedin had 2,800 work emails on her pervert husband Anthony Weiner's laptop, The Daily Mail reports.