Booking.com confirmed Monday that hackers may have accessed customers’ personal data, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and booking details.
The global travel and hotel reservation giant notified customers this past week of the breach, according to several online posts. “We’re writing to inform you that unauthorized third parties may have been able to access certain booking information associated with your reservation,” read the notification to customers, according to one user’s post on Reddit. Several other Reddit users replying to the post said they received the same notification. The message from the company included the aforementioned types of compromised data, as well as “anything that you may have shared with the accommodation.”
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Source: TechCrunch News
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