Trump Hotel Collection breached again - expert comment
April 2016 by Alex Cruz Farmer, VP of cloud at NSFOCUS IB
Banking industry sources tell KrebsOnSecurity that the Trump Hotel Collection — a string of luxury properties tied to business magnate and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — appears to be dealing with another breach of its credit card systems. If confirmed, this would be the second such breach at the Trump properties in less than a year.
Commenting on this, Alex Cruz Farmer, VP of cloud at NSFOCUS IB, said:
“With consumers demanding fast and unfettered access to their loyalty schemes, hotel and flight booking systems, the challenge of restricting data access is becoming more of a struggle for developers. The scary situation we are now facing is that data loss is becoming part of our normal day to day lives. This is similar to the situation faced in the Voice of IP industries for the last few years, where fraud is now something which is assumed and even budgeted for. Security is considered as an afterthought and, in most cases, is a knee-jerk reaction to a direct threat which is close to them, usually from a competitor’s misfortune. From this particular situation, Anonymous declared war on Trump starting 1st April, and whilst some thought their attempts had failed, time has proven that persistent attacks across the Trump spectrum have prevailed.”