The booking site Booking.com has announced that ‘unauthorised third parties’ have gained access to customers’ booking information. Some Booking.com customers received an email on Sunday regarding a potential data breach. The company confirmed on Sunday evening that data had been accessed, but declined to say how many people had been affected.
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Duluth, MN🌲
11752 posts
I'm glad I use 2FA and an authenticator app. I also don't keep my payment information on there. I just don't think it's very secure most of the time.
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Atlanta, GA, USA
3236 posts
The only thing I ever use Booking.com for is research.
This is not unusual. There have been so many reports of problems with their website. The Booking.com cheerleaders will tell you that it’s the hotels with bad security but for someone who works in cybersecurity , there’s too many coincidences, for it not to be a case of whether there is smoke there’s fire
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Idaho, USA
9563 posts
I received the emails from Booking for a couple of my reservations; I currently have many. Mainly it’s just warning to not open links or give credit card information through any outside, I.e. WhatsApp correspondence.
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I think it's really interesting.
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TX, USA
6021 posts
Yes, I have had 2 emails regarding this. What I think is strange is that clearly booking has been hacked going back several years and are just now acknowledging it. Makes me wonder if 1) it is worse; or 2) they are just finally kind of addressing the problem.