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Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

AI and Social Engineering Practice Tips

The hospitality industry faces mounting cybersecurity challenges as artificial intelligence (AI) enables increasingly sophisticated social engineering attacks targeting hotels, resorts, and travel service providers. Threat...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Cybersecurity Risks and Regulatory Challenges Impact Hospitality Industry

The hospitality industry is a prime target for cyber criminals, due in part to the high volume of sensitive guest data, including financial information, that companies maintain. Almost one-third of hospitality organizations...more

Gray Reed

Three Data Privacy Lessons Learned from the Marriott Data Breach

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Enforcement of data privacy laws across the US is in full force. Most recently, Marriott agreed to a $52 million settlement payment to 50 states, including $3.5 million to the State of Texas, following a data breach of 131...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity Quick Clicks | Issue 12

Katten's Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity Quick Clicks is a monthly newsletter highlighting the latest news and legal developments involving privacy, data and cybersecurity issues across the globe....more

Mitratech Holdings, Inc

The cyber attack on MGM Resorts: what you need to know (and what it means for your risk management strategy)

Just this week, global hospitality, casino, and entertainment company MGM Resorts reported a large-scale cyber attack that impacted its operating systems, causing downtime throughout its casino floors, reservation systems,...more

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Cyberattack on Luxury Resort Should Put Hospitality Industry on High Alert

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Cybercriminals are finding new ways to hold their victims hostage – and a recent cyberattack on a luxury resort should serve as a warning for your business. A June 15 media report revealed that one of Oregon’s premier...more

Baker Donelson

NIST Publishes Guidelines Aimed at Enhancing Hotel Property Management System Security

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Introduction - Hospitality organizations depend heavily on the property management system (PMS) of each hotel to run day-to-day operations. The PMS handles most vital functions, including reservations, room availability,...more

The Volkov Law Group

Sabre Travel Services Settles Data Breach Charges with State Attorneys General for $2.4 Million

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Sabre Corporation, the travel technology company, agreed to pay $2.4 million as a settlement with twenty-seven (27) State Attorneys General for a 2017 data breach involving hotel booking services....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Marriott Wins CCPA Data Breach Lawsuit

Marriott recently won dismissal of a proposed class action data breach lawsuit alleging several violations, including a violation of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The case, Arifur Rahman v. Marriott...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

ICO Fines: When Is An Appeal Appealing?

The decision to appeal a regulatory finding is never taken lightly. By the time a regulator has completed its investigation and notified a company of its intention to fine, the company will have invested significant time and...more

BCLP

Hotels and GDPR

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We are now over a year on from the major changes made to the European data protection regime by the GDPR so it is time to revisit what the changes mean now for the hospitality sector and investment in it, given increased...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2019 #2

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Marriott International Inc. (Marriott) has released new numbers relating to its Starwood Hotel’s reservation database by stating that more than 5 million passport numbers were stolen in the database. ...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

NGE IP Focus: Hospitality and Leisure - ISSUE 1 | FALL 2018

Among the things that are the most exciting about being an intellectual property practitioner working in the hospitality industry are the variety and wide breadth of legal issues that need to be addressed. We are...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

Marriott Announces Massive Data Breach

On November 30, Marriott announced that it experienced a massive data breach affecting 500 million customers over a four-year span. By the next business day after its announcement, Marriott faced at least a dozen putative...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Radisson Loyalty Program Compromised

Radisson Hotel Group has notified some of its global loyalty program customers that hackers have stolen their personal information, including their names, addresses, email addresses, and in some cases, their employment and...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2018 #3

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Schneider Electric recently issued a consumer warning that it mistakenly shipped to its customers USB drives that were infected with malware. Schneider Electric stated in its alert that “Schneider Electric has determined that...more

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Web Exclusive - June 2018: The Top 18 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - May 2018 #1

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Bezop Cryptocurrency Investors’ Personal Information Exposed - Kromtech Security has reported that the sensitive personal information of more than 25,000 investors of Bezop cryptocurrency was exposed when a MongoDB...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Hilton Settles Data Breach Investigations with NY and VT AGs

Hilton Domestic Operating Co., Inc. (Hilton) has agreed to pay the New York and Vermont Attorneys General $700,000 to settle allegations that they violated those state consumer protection and data breach notification laws...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2017

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US-CERT Warns of New Ransomware: Bad Rabbit - The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) is warning companies in the U.S. about a new ransomware dubbed “Bad Rabbit.” US-CERT stated it has received multiple...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Hyatt Data Breach Impacts 41 Locations in 11 Countries

Hyatt Hotels Corporation recently announced that it had identified malicious software code resulting in unauthorized access to customer payment card information. Hyatt disclosed that upon investigating the incident, it...more

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Data Security Breach Handbook for Hotels, Venues, & the Hospitality Industry

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Media reports about data security breaches have become an almost daily occurrence. Increased publicity reflects the simple fact that data breaches have grown in frequency and scope. According to one study, the hospitality...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Omni Hotels latest hotel chain hit with malware

Omni Hotels notified guests on Friday, July 8, 2016, that its point of sale systems were compromised with malware from December 23, 2015, through June 15, 2016....more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Wyndham Ruling Reinforces FTC's Role in Cybersecurity Regulation

In Federal Trade Commission v. Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has authority to regulate cybersecurity under 15 U.S.C. §...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Trump Hotel Collection Confirms Year-Long Data Breach

Trump Hotel Collection, the high-end hotel chain owned by the billionaire Republican presidential hopeful and real estate developer Donald Trump, has confirmed a data security breach involving malware that the company says...more

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