Booking.com confirms a data breach that exposed traveler details, raising urgent concerns about highly targeted phishing scams and customer safety. Booking.com Hit by Data Breach The site warns that hackers accessed data, including booking details, names, emails addresses, and phone numbers associated with the booking. The travel site Booking.com has been impacted by a data breach that affects an undisclosed number of customers.

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Booking.com confirmed Monday that hackers may have accessed customers personal data, including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and booking details. Booking.com says hackers accessed customer reservation data as users report phishing emails, calls, and WhatsApp scams targeting upcoming travel bookings. Booking.com has confirmed via a statement to BleepingComputer that it has detected unauthorized access to its systems that has exposed sensitive reservation and user data. The accommodation reservation website Booking.com has suffered a data breach with unauthorised parties gaining access to customers details.

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