Hackers Con Telecom IT Support Worker, Bilk Mandarin Oriental Guests and Trigger Bogus Bomb Alarm at a Mall

In case you missed our coverage this week in ThreatWatch, Nextgov’s regularly updated index of cyber breaches:

High-Paying Guests Hacked at Mandarin Oriental

Luxury hotel chain Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group says credit card systems at some of its locations in the United States and Europe have been breached.

IT Support at Canadian Telco Rogers Duped Into Giving Away Company Email Access

Hackers distributed records on corporate clients of Rogers Communications via Twitter, after tricking a Rogers tech support employee into divulging network credentials.

Local Guy Hacks Illinois Mall Radio System to Sound Bomb Alarms

Raymond J. Kelly, 25, is accused of orchestrating the attack from his Waukegan, Ill. home. He allegedly infiltrated a radio system in Illinois’s Gurnee Mills mall to trigger false alarms.

Hacker Peeked at Names and Licenses of As Many As 50,000 Uber Drivers

An unauthorized entity accessed an Uber database last spring, the ride-sharing company disclosed Feb. 27.

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