http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/112411-hungarian-hacks-marriotts-systems-to-253458.html By John Ribeiro IDG News Service November 23, 2011 A Hungarian citizen has pleaded guilty to stealing confidential information from the computers of Marriott International, and threatening to reveal the information if the hotel chain did not offer him a job maintaining the company's computers, the Department of Justice said on Wednesday. Attila Nemeth, 26, pleaded guilty in the District of Maryland before U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz, according to a statement by DOJ. 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. Nemeth sent an email to Marriott staff on Nov. 11 last year, informing them that he had been accessing Marriott's computers for months and had obtained proprietary information, according to Nemeth's plea agreement. He threatened to reveal the information if Marriott did not give him a job maintaining the company's computers. [...] _____________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Thu Nov 24 2011 - 01:08:05 PST
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