Stealing information and then holding it for ransom is a trendy cyber-attack that has arrived to the hotel sector.  PandaLabs, Panda Security’s anti-malware laboratory, is launching a study called  “The Hotel Hijackers“; a document that reviews the increasing tendency of cyber-attacks directed towards large hotel chains.

Research showed us that 2015 was the year for these type of attacks and we have detailed information on this type of intrusion and how this sector was largely affected worldwide, in many famous hotels like the Trump, Hilton and Starwood hotels.

Why the hotel sector?

Hotels make billions of dollars from the millions of guests that pass through their doors everyday AND hotels keep all of their guests’ sensitive data on file, just waiting to be compromised, and cyber-criminals know it.

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