[Dataloss] Revealed: 8 million victims in the world's biggest cyber heist

[lyger]

http://www.sundayherald.com/news/heraldnews/display.var.2432225.0.0.php

AN INTERNATIONAL criminal gang has pulled off one of the most audacious 
cyber-crimes ever and stolen the identities of an estimated eight million 
people in a hacking raid that could ultimately net more than 2.8billion in 
illegal funds.

A Sunday Herald investigation has discovered that late on Thursday night, 
a previously unknown Indian hacker successfully breached the IT defences 
of the Best Western Hotel group's online booking system and sold details 
of how to access it through an underground network operated by the Russian 
mafia.

It is a move that has been dubbed the greatest cyber-heist in world 
history. The attack scooped up the personal details of every single 
customer that has booked into one of Best Western's 1312 continental 
hotels since 2007.

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