The Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG), which owns Holiday Inn, was the target of a destructive cyberattack by hackers who claimed they did it "for fun".According to the BBC, the IHG identified as a couple from Vietnam and claim that after attempting a ransomware assault, which was unsuccessful, the duo erased a significant amount of data.The hackers accessed the FTSE 100 firm's databases and quickly found that the password was Qwerty1234.The hackers, calling themselves TeaPea, contacted the BBC on the encrypted messaging app, Telegram, providing screenshots as evidence that they had carried out the hack.

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