Vietnamese Couple Deletes British Hotel Chain Data For Fun: Report
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The hackers claimed they did not feel any guilt about the damage they perpetrated on the hotel chain.
The Holiday Inn's parent company, Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), suffered substantial booking interruptions last week when two hackers erased data from the company, according to a report by the BBC. IHG is a UK-based company, runs 6,000 hotels globally under the Regent and Holiday Inn brands, as well as Crowne Plaza.
The hackers, a couple from Vietnam, told the BBC that they did it just for fun and that their first plan was to launch a ransomware attack but they were stopped, so they wiped a sizable amount of data from the company.
The easy password Qwerty1234 allowed them to gain access to the FTSE 100 company's databases. An analyst claims that the incident demonstrates the dangerous hackers' spiteful nature.
"The company's IT team kept isolating servers before we had a chance to deploy it.We thought to have some funny (sic). We did a wiper attack instead," they said.
