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Vietnam hotel DB leaks cards

Visitors to the Silverland Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, might want to check their credit card statements for unauthorized withdrawals after a major security leak was uncovered.

Researchers found an unsecured database on the internet containing thousands of credit card numbers that the hotel had been storing online. The information was unencrypted and trivial to find through a scan of public-facing machines. The records included login details, IP addresses, and special requests of over 6,000 guests.

The MongoDB database, spotted by the MacKeeper Security Research Center, contained data on guests from Australia, US, UK and a range of international guests. The system has now been password protected, two weeks after the team made contact with the hotel. ®

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