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Privacy Snafu Exposes UK Holidaymakers’ Data for Three Years

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Dissent

Phil Muncaster reports:

The personal details of over 200,000 customers of a British holiday firm were left exposed in audio files for several years, according to a new report.

Truly Travels, which trades under the name Teletext Holidays, is unusual in that consumers browse its website for package deals before completing their order over the phone.

However, this is where the problems arose, after 212,000 audio files of these calls were found on an unsecured Amazon Web Services server by Verdict.

Read more on InfoSecurity.

Category: Business SectorExposureNon-U.S.

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