South Africa's LekkeSlaap suffers customer data leak after booking system breach
The calendar synchronization system of South African accommodation booking platform LekkeSlaap was breached, exposing some customers' names, email addresses, phone numbers, and booking references. A code flaw was exploited, and the company said it had contained the incident and that payment information, identity document numbers, and passwords had not been exposed. Phishing attempts exploiting the exposed booking information were reported, while the number of people affected was not disclosed.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- LekkeSlaap
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Some customers' names, email addresses, phone numbers, and booking references exposed; number of people affected undisclosed
- Cause / method
- Unauthorized access to the calendar synchronization system through exploitation of a code flaw
- Location
- South Africa
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Timeline
- Unauthorized access to booking information through exploitation of a code flaw and phishing attempts using the exposed information came to light.
- The company said it had contained the incident and that payment information, identity document numbers, and passwords had not been exposed.
- Concerns arose about targeted phishing, including WhatsApp messages citing genuine booking details to solicit payments.
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