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How NOT to Get a Job 101: Hack Marriott, Extort Execs for Work

Attila Nemeth, 26, a Hungarian citizen, was sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Nemeth threatened to reveal confidential information if Marriott did not offer him a job maintaining the company’s computers. The loss to Marriott as a result of the intentional damage caused by Nemeth was approximately $1 million in salaries, consultant expenses and other costs associated with Nemeth’s intrusion. Marriott created a fictitious Marriott employee that it then let the U.S. Secret Service use in an undercover operation.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130889/how-not-to-get-a-job-101–hack-marriott–extort-execs-for-work.html

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