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Hungarian Hacks Marriott’s Systems to Blackmail for Job

Hungarian citizen Attila Nemeth, 26, pleaded guilty to stealing confidential information from the computers of Marriott International. He was detained after he traveled to the U.S. on a ticket purchased by Marriott for a fictitious job interview. Nemeth is said to have admitted that he used an infected email attachment sent to some Marriott employees to install malicious software on the company’s system that gave him a “backdoor” access to proprietary email and other files. He threatened to reveal the information if Marriott did not give him a job maintaining company’s computers.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2130189/hungarian-hacks-marriott-s-systems-to-blackmail-for-job.html

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