Hungarian hacks Marriott's systems to blackmail for job

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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.

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