Wyndham Hotels Still Under Fire Over Hacking | courthousenews.com
The Federal Trade Commission may have a case against Wyndham Worldwide Hotels after Russian hackers cost consumers more than $10.6 million, a federal judge ruled. In its 2012 complaint, the FTC alleged that the "failure to maintain reasonable security allowed intruders to obtain unauthorized access to the computer networks," managed by Wyndham and its subsidiaries, "on three separate occasions in less than two years." Regulators said Wyndham failed to use firewalls or complex passwords, while storing credit card information in clear readable text and letting hotels connect insecure outdated servers to its network from April 2008 through January 2010.
