The customers of the well known Trump chain of hotels have been victims of a hacking attack, which has been going on for the past year. The details of credit and debit cards of customers used at several Trump hotels in various locations have been hacked by unknown individuals or group of individuals. Customers’ details were also hacked at the gift shops and restaurants within the hotel.
The management in an official statement announced that the hotel is working along with Federal Investigation authorities to trace the perpetrators. Also, the hotel in an effort to win back the goodwill of customers have announce free one year of identity theft protection to the victims. This crime occurred at the following Trump Hotel Locations: Soho, New York, Miami, Hawaii, Chicago, Las Vegas and Toronto. The Trump group of hotels is owned by US Presidential candidate, Donald Trump. He is the chairperson of the group of hotels and his children occupy several executive positions in the hotels.
It is to be noted that several other luxury chains of hotels, such as Mandarin Oriental have also had similar data attacks on their customers earlier this year. FBI officials are actively involved in this investigation and hope to nab the hackers quickly.
Forbes Magazine revealed the list of the world’s highest paid actresses for this year. Jenifer Lawrence leads the list this year with $1 million more than last year’s number one position holder Sandra Bullock. The Hunger Games star has moved up one position this year from last year’s second spot. Scarlett Johansson of the Avengers comes in second followed by Melissa McCarthy of Spy fame. New comers to this year’s list include Bingbing Fan of XMen: Days of Future Past fame and Amanda Seyfried. While other actresses like Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock, Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Jenifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie continue to occupy this year’s list too with their revenue from several brand endorsements. Given below is an extract from this year’s list with the actresses and their revenues for the last year.
Jenifer Lawrence – $52,000,000
In one of the biggest drug busts made by the Coast Guard, a coast guard crew nabbed a submarine off the coast of California carrying around 271 bales of cocaine. A US coast guard crew from Alameda, California identified a suspicious vehicle in the waters between California and Mexico. The vehicle was a semi submersible sea faring machine, which is one of the vehicles typically used to smuggle contraband into the US.
The US Maritime crew nabbed four smugglers on board along with around 271 bales of cocaine worth $181 million. This is one of the most successful drug busts made by US Coast Guard. Officials removed the cocaine from the vessel and towed it to shore. The vehicle quickly capsized without the balance of the load.