Wednesday, September 26, 2007

UK: Website Glitch Exposes Travelodge Customer Details

Tom Young writes on Computing:

A glitch on the web site of hotel chain Travelodge led to names, addresses and parts of credit card numbers being accessible to other customers.

One affected site user claimed thousands of records could have been exposed. But Travelodge said that only a small proportion could have been accessed in the time that it took to fix the fault.

A customer discovered the problem by clicking on the link in a booking confirmation email and changing the booking number. The result was access to other customers’ orders showing their name, postal address and the last four digits of the credit card number.

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