Carnival Corporation & PLC hit by a data breach in Miami, FL, USA

Summary:

In March 2021, the Miami (Florida, USA) based Carnival Corp. experienced a data breach. The attackers used e-mail to get into the IT system of one cruise liner. There it gained access to personal information of staff and customers. On march 19th , the company detected the unauthorised access of a third party to limited proportions of the companies information systems. There appears to be evidence of a low likelihood of mis-usage of the stolen data being misused. This has been ransomware based attack that Carnival Corp. had to endure in a timespan of about two years.

Reference URL

https://hospitalitytech.com/carnival-discloses-fourth-data-breach-two-years#:~:text=Breach%20happened%20on%20March%2019,a%20cybersecurity%20firm%20to%20investigate.
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