What I read
According to the article, a Chinese hotel group is investigating the possible leak of millions of customers' records, which appears to be for sale on the internet. An advert is offering the 140 gigabyte data trove in exchange for bitcoin on a dark web forum. Data breaches are nothing new for China, but the scale of customer data involved has led to international press attention for the hotel group.
Cyber-security firm Zibao told a local news outlet that it believed the breach was a result of the hotel group's software developers accidentally uploading a database to github, a service where developers can collaborate. The group told BBC in a statement " we have paid significant attention to this matter and immediately implemented an internal audit to guaranteed the safety of our guests' information"
It added that it was using external companies to verify whether a leak had happened.
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My response
As it says in the article, The guests' data are leaking out on the internet for exchange of bitcoin on dark web forum. The hotels is also one of the largest hotel in China but how could the data is leaking? In my opinion, I think there must be some kinds of group in the hotel that are making this systems for bitcoin though I don't really understand what bitcoin is.
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My question
Does this situation effects the customers? What is your opinion?
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Reference
- Chinese hotel group investigates possible leak of millions of guests' data. (2018, August 29) retrieved from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45349036
I have a vague idea about how Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies work, but I've never used them. I regretted this at the start of this year. A couple of my friends were raving about it many years ago, and had I listened to them, I could have cashed in to make a lot of money when it hit $15,000 early this year. I think it's probably too late to make a fortune gambling that way now.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of Bitcoin and other currencies being independent of governments, which tend to be far too powerful and far too intrusive into people's personal lives, even dictating what we can eat and watch on TV. Even in the US, which has a comparatively strong constitution to keep the government under control, is becoming excessively intrusive in the personal decisions of citizens, with a militarised police force using grossly excessive force against people.
Back on Aisha's topic, when read her source, it sounded like the hotel group's technical staff accidentally posted the private information of guests to the internet, from where hackers got it and then sought to sell it. It does not sound like a hotel chain to trust.