Breaking News :: Thompson Hotels' Emails Get Hacked

October 10, 2008 at 1:50 PM | by Jenna | 0 Comments

According to some recently-filed court documents that Cityfile obtained and posted today, Jason Pomeranc and co. are entrenched in a legal battle with an unidentified hacker who obtained confidential Thompson Hotels emails.

From what we understand, the individual--whose IP address was traced back to Silicon Valley--gained access to "one or more" Thompson employees' email accounts, and then forwarded sensitive correspondence and documents to a Rocketmail account that was meant to impersonate the email address of a PR/Communications exec at Thompson.

But it gets worse.

Now the hacker is threatening to release the stolen materials to the public. The court docs state that the hacker sent an email to "one of the principals of Thompson" in which he or she:

taunted the [Thompson's employee] about the defendant's receipt of the unauthorized information, attempted to embarrass key employees of Thompson, and contained an implied threat to further disseminate the stolen emails to the public to the detriment of Thompson.

Yeah. It's bad. And not only does Thompson want their emails back, but they're also going after some money -- the legal documents mention the hotel company is seeking "compensatory damages."

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