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Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story

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In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. Those publications set off speculation about a possible secret back-channel of communications, as well as a series of lawsuits and investigations that culminated last week with the indictment of the same former federal cybercrime prosecutor who brought the data to the attention of the FBI five years ago. Continue reading Indictment, Lawsuits Revive Trump-Alfa Bank Story→

Trump Organization falls victim to supply chain hack

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The Trump organization has fallen victim to yet another leak of customer data tied to 14 of its properties around the world, including New York, Vancouver and Washington, D.C., among others. Through a data breach of Sabre Hospitality Solutions, the chain’s reservation management service provider, credit card thieves had access to up to 15 percent of daily reservation data at the 14 properties over a seven-month period from August 2016 to March 2017, according to separate letters posted on the Trump Organization and Sabre websites. An “unauthorized party was able to access payment card information for some hotel reservations … including cardholder name, payment card number, card expiration date, and potentially card security code,” the Trump Organization said in a statement. “In some cases, the unauthorized party also was able to access guest name, email, phone number, address, and other information.” Sabre Hospitality Solutions, who provide reservation services to multiple large […]

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