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Millions of Hotel Guests Worldwide Caught Up in Mass Data Leak
Due to a cloud misconfiguration users of a popular reservation platform threaten travelers with identity theft, scams, credit-card fraud and vacation-stealing. The misconfigured Amazon Web Services S3 bucket. Revealed the records include sensitive data and credit-card details. The Prestige Software’s “Cloud Hospitality” is used by hotels to integrate their reservation systems with online booking websites like Expedia and Booking.com.
The company was storing years of credit-card data from hotel guests and travel agents without any protection in place, putting millions of people at risk of fraud and online attacks, “The S3 bucket contained over 180,000 records from August 2020 alone. Many of them related to hotel reservations being made on numerous websites, despite global hotel bookings being at an all-time low for this period.”
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