If the economic aspects haven’t been felt because of our stay at home orders, a cruise line is surely going to feel the effects of someone walking off with a data dump to boot.
In part, the article states:
this incident leaves agents who were “already vulnerable at this time” at higher risk of cybercrime. Risks include account takeovers, phishing emails and fraud. These types of activity will put further pressure on large travel agents and there is the additional concern, during the era of coronavirus, of smaller agents out of business
Large and small agents are now going to be hit with this massive problem which was made worse by the article stating that the data was found in the dark web.
“Norwegian Cruise Line experienced a credential dump… it does also mean that we are well aware of many best practices that Norwegian (and others) can implement to minimize further damage and prevent this from happening in the future.” In other words, lessons can be learned from this incident. In terms of how this type of situation should be reacted to, Carder recommends that all travel agents change their portal passwords, plus other passwords relating to other applications.
The article later goes in to detail on the problems with people using the same password, and countless articles we’ve posted here and you can find elsewhere, and the problems that this is going to cause.
Monitoring is now too late, but for future use, it is recommended according to the article. Want to read more? Norwegian cruise line involved in data breach SPECIAL is the article and it comes from the Digital Journal.
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