/ world today news/ Billionaire Donald Trump’s hotel chain has agreed to pay a $50,000 fine for negligence that allowed hackers to break into the cashless payment system of seven hotels.
The hacking attack led to the theft of more than 70,000 bank card numbers and other personal data of guests, reports the New York Times.
In early October last year, the company The Trump Hotel Collection announced that customers who stayed at Trump properties in New York, Miami, Chicago, Waikiki, Las Vegas and Toronto during the period of 19 May 2014 to June 2, 2015. The Company notes that an independent investigation has not confirmed the theft of any guest’s payment card details, but as a precaution, potential victims have been alerted and the necessary steps taken by them personal data protection party.
According to the attorney general of New York, in May 2015, several American banks, after checks, came to the conclusion that the objects of hacker attacks became precisely Trump’s hotels. In June 2015, an audit found that malware had been injected into the computer system of The Trump Hotel Collection in New York, Las Vegas and Chicago. This happened on May 19, 2014.
Washington / USA
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