The hotel chain Red Roof revealed on Friday that, although it did not involve guest data, it experienced a cybersecurity issue in September that briefly brought down its systems.
The hotel chain Red Roof said on Friday that it had a cybersecurity problem in September that momentarily knocked its systems offline but did not include guest data.
Red Roof reported that on September 23, it discovered "suspicious activity" in its systems, which quickly turned out to be ransomware due to a number of indicators, including the encryption of a small portion of Red Roof data.
After being made aware of the issue, Red Roof notified federal law enforcement and took steps to safeguard its data and systems, including resetting passwords and taking the impacted systems offline. Because of this, the organization claimed to have limited the compromise to a tiny subset of its whole infrastructure's systems.
The company said that after the incident, an investigation revealed that the hacker had access to a small number of Red Roof's systems before using ransomware.
Red Roof's network was used to copy personal information, such as names, dates of birth, social security numbers, credit and/or debit card numbers, driver's license numbers, passport numbers, financial account numbers, medical information, and health insurance information.
According to Red Roof, none of the stolen data has been utilized fraudulently or for identity theft.
When comparable cyber breaches happened to Las Vegas casino operators MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment in September, they weren't as fortunate.
