Security News > 2020 > February > Data of 10.6m MGM hotel guests posted for sale on Dark Web forum
2020-02-21 11:55
The personal data of 10,683,188 MGM hotel guests that leaked sometime in or before 2017 was posted for sale on the Dark Web this week, ZDNet reports.
ZDNet called hotel guests whose details were included in the data dump and found that, while some of the phone numbers had been disconnected, many were still valid, as "The right person answered the phone."
A spokesperson for MGM Resorts confirmed the security breach, saying that the data is old.
None of the hotel guests whom the news outlet contacted had stayed at the hotel more recently than 2017.
If you're worried about how to protect your business's data in the cloud, read five steps to avoid a cloud data breach over on Sophos News.
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