Dutch watchdog fines Booking.com €475k after it kept customer data thefts quiet for more than 3 weeks
Thousands of people's personal information purloined after UAE hotels compromised Jude Karabus Thu 1 Apr 2021 // 16:12 UTC Share Copy The Netherlands Data Protection Authority has fined Booking.com €475,000 for notifying it too late that criminals had accessed the data of 4,109 people who booked a hotel room via the website. The Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP) said criminals managed to extract the login credentials to their Booking.com accounts from employees of 40 hotels in the United Arab Emirates using social engineering techniques. They then gained access to dat...
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