A researcher has recently found an unprotected server storing the personal data of several Falkensteiner hotel chain clients in Europe.
Falkensteiner, the Austria-based hotel chain has hotels that are spread across Central and Eastern Europe, including Austria, Italy, Croatia, Slovakia, Serbia, and the Czech Republic.
The compromised data of Falkensteiner was apparently discovered by researcher Anurag Sen, from the cloud security company CloudDefense.AI. Sen most recently found a US government computer that was leaking private emails from the US military.
In an analysis conducted by Sen, it was found that the exposed customer data was linked to Gustaffo, a firm providing IT solutions for the hospitality sector.
The researcher claims that he alerted Falkensteiner and Gustaffo, but neither one of them responded. Sen informed the company, but shortly thereafter he found that the server was protected.
According to Sen, before it was taken offline, the compromised Elasticsearch server hosted more than 11 GB of data. In the exposed database, he discovered more than 102,000 records with full names, contact information (phone and email), and booking information.
The researcher has shown his discontent with how the impacted companies have addressed the issue. “They haven’t responded to his emails and haven’t notified customers about the data breach,” he says.
Gustaffo, however, claims that after learn
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