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AI and Social Engineering Practice Tips

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP on 7/29/2025

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

Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity Quick Clicks | Issue 12

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 12/21/2023

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

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

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 9/14/2023

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

Cyberattack on Luxury Resort Should Put Hospitality Industry on High Alert

Fisher Phillips on 7/7/2022

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

NIST Publishes Guidelines Aimed at Enhancing Hotel Property Management System Security

Baker Donelson on 4/28/2021

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

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

The Volkov Law Group on 1/25/2021

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

Marriott Wins CCPA Data Breach Lawsuit

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/22/2021

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

Financial Daily Dose 1.6.2020 | Top Story: Oil Futures Jump as Concerns Deepen Over Mideast Volatility

Robins Kaplan LLP on 1/6/2020

Oil jumped for a second straight day, with futures near $70/barrel as fallout from the U.S.’s drone-strike assassination of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani continues to raise “the prospect of disruptions in the world’s most important...more

Hotels and GDPR

BCLP on 11/6/2019

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

10 Ways to Protect Yourself in Light of the Starwood/Marriott Breach

Lowndes on 1/28/2019

Marriott International announced a massive data breach of its Starwood database. Hackers took off with names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, passport numbers, affinity account information, dates of birth,...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2018 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/24/2018

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

Hyatt Data Breach Impacts 41 Locations in 11 Countries

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/19/2017

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

Crisis Management – Are You Prepared?

Fisher Phillips on 6/3/2017

Newspaper headlines, television airwaves, and social media links are filled with companies dealing with crises on a near-daily basis. Just as Samsung learned in 2016 when its phones were catching on fire, and as United...more

Trump Hotel Settles with NY Attorney General Over Credit Card Breaches

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/4/2016

Trump International Hotels Management has agreed to pay the State of New York $50,000 for two data breaches that exposed over 70,000 customer credit card numbers and other personal information, according to New York Attorney...more

Managing Risk in an Inhospitable Environment: The Restaurant and Hospitality Industries are an Alluring Destination for Cyber...

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 6/20/2014

The recent onslaught of cybersecurity incidents and payment card thefts dominate daily headlines and have captured the nation’s attention—from the diner whose credit card was compromised during a data breach to the President...more

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