http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2012-02-14T11:47:49Z HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Hotel%20Hacks http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2011/7/18/102415/815 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/bradrichards_hackedtweet.jpg" class="top"><p> Yesterday we noticed a funny item in <a href="http://www.nypost.com/Page/Uuid/87336e26-b03c-11e0-a60d-7ad9530e78f5">Page Six</a>. Apparently, New York Rangers hockey player <b>Brad Richards</b> had his Twitter account hacked by aging rocker <b>Tommy Lee</b>. Ok, so that's not really funny and you're probably wondering, "Why should I even care about these people?"<p>Well, what's really interesting here is <i>HOW</i> Tommy Lee hacked the Rangers' Twitter--<b>through a hotel room computer.</b><p>Precisely, the in-suite computer at the <a href=""><b>Tribeca Grand.</b></a> From Page Six: <blockquote><p>Tampa native Richards stayed at the Tribeca Grand hotel and logged onto a computer in his room to tweet. When Lee stayed in the same room a few days later and booted up the computer, he saw Richards' account was still open and sent juliana 2011-07-18T10:40:02-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/6/25/1155/56235 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/driskillonghorn2.jpg" class="top"><p> <i>The longhorn hanging in the Driskill did not scare off hackers.</i><p><i><b>UPDATE 6.27.10</b>: Destination Hotels issued a statement about this unfortunate situation. See bottom of story for what to do if you think you were a victim of credit card theft.</i><p>This is definitely not the sort of information you want to hear as you head into thwe weekend, especially if you've booked a room at <a href="http://www.destinationhotels.com/"><b>Destination Hotels and Resorts.</b></a> <p>The hotel collection was a victim of an intense database hack that lasted over three months, stole over 700 credit card numbers from guests and charged hundreds of thousands of dollars with the stolen info. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/hundreds-credit-cards-stolen-hotel-computer-hack/story?id=11002822">ABC News</a> reports:<blockquote><p>The police said the security hole has been fixed but juliana 2010-06-25T11:56:20-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2010/3/10/133558/496 <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/creditcardhacks.jpg" class="top"><p> <a href="http://twitter.com/BudTravel/statuses/10242967194">Budget Travel</a> tweeted at us about <a href="http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2010/03/travelerss_credit_card_data_st.html">hacking incident</a> at <a href=""><b>Wyndham Hotels</b></a> where guests' credit card information including names, credit card numbers and card expiration dates were stolen. This was the second time in recent years Wyndham has been hacked. <p>How does this happen? We would think that securing the computer systems at a hotel should be just as important as securing the guestrooms. Sadly, according to this report from <a href="http://industry.bnet.com/travel/10005135/wyndhams-third-computer-hacking-shows-hotels-are-easy-prey/">BNET</a>, hackers love to hack hotels because it's easy and because it can take several months for hotels to realized they've been hacked. <p>Making it worse is that much like the Hotel WiFi conundrum where most hotels are franchises owned by different owners and juliana 2010-03-10T16:15:03-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/26/1660/69668 <![CDATA[<p><img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/bwlogo.png" class="imgborder"><p><a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/8/24/203221/266/hotels/Hackers_Infiltrate_Best_Western_Europe_and_Sell_Guest_Info_to_Russian_Mafia">Yesterday</a> a news report said that the computer reservations system for <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/best%20western%20hotels"><b>Best Western Europe</b></a> had been hacked and detailed guest information had been sold to the Russian mob.<p>While many guests probably had a sleepless night worrying that someone named Vlad or Tatiana was going to take over their lives, Best Western today issued a <a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/statement-best-western-international/story.aspx?guid=%7BDC0141F6-85D0-468E-97DC-92BB3F54D1BB%7D&amp;dist=hppr">statement</a> that the initial hacking report is "largely erroneous."<blockquote><p> We can confirm that on August 21, 2008, three separate attempts were made via a single log-on ID to access the same data from a single hotel. The hotel in question is the 107-room <b>Best Western Hotel am Schloss Kopenick</b> in Berlin, Germany, where a Trojan horse virus was detected by juliana 2008-08-26T16:08:04-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/