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01-23-2015, 03:44 PM
Password Re-use Fuels Starwood Fraud Spike (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_za&usg=AFQjCNFf2D2SeZOyLYYPvRtbexKRsPCySQ&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&cid=52778719656709&ei=bHrCVLC8OuKAwQGT_YHwDQ&url=http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/01/password-re-use-fuels-starwood-fraud-spike/)
Krebs on Security
Two different readers have written in this past week to complain about having their Starwood Preferred Guest loyalty accounts hijacked by scammers. The spike in fraud appears to be tied to a combination of password re-use and the release of a tool that ...

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