Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2016-04-25 00:00:00
Affected organization: The Grand Sierra Resort
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Accommodation and Food Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Sensors
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Grand Sierra Resort is the latest hospitality entity to disclose a data breach involving customers' credit card information. In this case, there appear to be two time frames during which cards used at their food and retail locations may have been compromised; for a one-month period in 2014 and again during a 5-month period in 2015.