Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2015-05-07 00:00:00
Affected organization: Intercontinental Hotel Group
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: Six Intercontinental Hotel Group hotels are notified earlier this year of a data security breach due to a malicious email attachment, which had compromised their payment system and exposed 613 customers' names, addresses, payment card numbers, and expiration dates.