Booking.com hack lures users to fake payment pages
A Booking.com hack led users to fake payment pages. The date of the incident, the scale of the damage and the response have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Booking.com
- Incident type
- Phishing & smishing
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Not confirmed
- Cause / method
- Hack that lured users to fake payment pages
- Location
- Other countries
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Timeline
- It emerged that a Booking.com hack had led users to fake payment pages.
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