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Booking.com allegedly hacked by a US intelligence agency :Customers never informed

by Jigyasa Prashar
November 12, 2021 - Updated On November 13, 2021
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Booking.com, an Amsterdam based company was hacked in 2016 by a hacker working for a US intelligence agency, who entered the servers of the company according to sources. Still, the online travel company kept this information under wraps from the public.
This decision was made after hiring the Dutch intelligence service, AIVD, for the disquisition process. Upon legal advice, the company didn’t communicate or notify the affected customers or the Dutch Data Protection Authority.  The loophole was that no sensitive or personal data was blurted or penetrated, hence removing legal conditions fromBooking.com to inform the public.
A different story was told by the IT specialists atBooking.com, says the book De Machine In de ban vanBooking.com. The internal moniker for the hack, according to the book‘s authors, three reporters from the Dutch public review NRC, was the” PIN-leak, “because the breach involved stolen PIN from reservations. According to the book, the hacker gained access to thousands of hotel reservations in Middle Eastern countries  like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. The information exposed included the individualities ofBooking.com customers as well as their trip intentions. Two months later the breach, it was determined that by Booking.com’s security department that the hacker was an American who worked for a establishment that performed work for US intelligence agencies. However, the writers were never able to ascertain which agency was responsible for the intrusion. Data about hotels  and travel has long been a prized commodity among nation– state hackers. “Royal Concierge,” an operation run by intelligencers from Britain’s GCHQ that tracked bookings at 350 upscale hospices throughout the world, was revealed by an NSA whistleblower in 2013. The intelligencers utilized the information to find the hotel where their targets were staying so that field agents could plant bugs in their rooms. Dark Hotel, a times–long crusade that leveraged hotel Wi-Fi networks to infect the bias of targeted guests with the aim of acquiring access to a company‘s critical information, was revealed by Kaspersky Labs in 2014. Political elites and global C- level executives have piqued the interest of the folks behind Dark Hotel, who are most likely amusement on behalf of nation-state.Booking.com didn’t reply to requests for comment for this information. ABooking.com spokesperson vindicated that there was anomalous behavior in 2016, that security professionals completely addressed the situation incontinently, and that the company noway publicized it, according to the authors of The Machine, who offered a book exercise on Thursday. Booking.com had no legal obligation to reveal the breach, according to the spokesperson, because there was no suggestion of” real dangerous impacts on the private life of individualities.”

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