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American’s Threat To Cut Service From 30 Cities Isn’t a Ruse, Just A Convenient $6 Billion Smash And Grab

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Aug 16 2020

A ‘clean extension’ of the CARES Act means another $5.8 billion for American, a lot more money than they’d save with furloughs, and then we’ll be back to laying off employees again April 1 when it’s no longer election season.

Matthew Klint asks if American’s plan to drop ‘up to 30 cities’ without CARES Act money is ‘just a ruse’. It’s not, though the timing of leaking the story to Leslie Josephs was clearly designed as a tactic to push for a second government bailout.

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Travel Management Firm Pays $4.5 Million Data Ransom, The Negotiation Is Online For All To Read

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Aug 13 2020

At the end of July travel management first CWT (formerly Carlson Wagonlit Travel), which is one of the largest firms handling business travel, meetings, and conferences, representing more than one-third of companies on the S&P 500, paid $4.5 million after a ransomware attack.

What’s unique about the Carlson attack is that the negotiations between the company and the hackers were left online for anyone to read.

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