Chinese hotel guests find data sold all over the internet Probably better not to register for Wi-Fi next time youre in the PRC Chinese hotel-goers beware – newspaper reports from the Middle Kingdom claim that the personal details of thousands of guests from major hotel chains have been leaked online. The personal information appeared in a page on e-commerce platform Taobao, where a seller offer 8GB of data for 2,000 yuan, and on a website called chakaifang.info – both have which have now been blocked, according to the South China Morning Post. scmp/news/china-insider/article/1336456/website-leaking-chinese-hotel-guest-details-closed-down It’s suspected that the data may have been pilfered from Zhejiang-based CNWisdom, a firm which provides Wi-Fi access to hotel chains in China. The firm was apparently fingered by vulnerability data site WooYun a fortnight ago for having been breached by hackers. However, it is denying any involvement, claiming that the data it stores is different to that which has appeared online recently. Nevertheless, the company services over 4,500 hotels across China and, back in 2011, processed over 450,000 hotel rooms, capturing name, address, workplace, ID number, birth date and phone number just to register for Wi-Fi, SCMP said. If nothing else the breach scare illustrates once again why best practice advice is always for firms in such industries to collect and store as little customer information as possible, to reduce the risk of such data getting in the wrong hands. So, if you are forced to ‘register’ input false data, gobbletygook if you can. 34 smithsmith st - etc. A lot of hotels, cafes and other places just give you the password when you use their services, so not such a problem. In China, personal data theft is commonplace, often perpetrated by malicious insiders who sell that info on for profit.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 04:17:38 +0000
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