Leaky Gekko Group database (over 1TB of data) exposes info on hotel brands, travelers

guest · Nov 21, 2019

Leaky Gekko Group database exposes info on hotel brands, travelers
November 21, 2019
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/sec...abase-exposes-info-on-hotel-brands-travelers/

European hotel booking platform provider Gekko Group mistakenly stored over 1 terabyte of information on a publicly configured server, exposing troves of data related to its hotel B2B clients, as well as travel agents and their customers.

The majority of the exposed data was collected by Gekko brands Teldar Travel, which provides a booking system for travel agents, and Infinite Hotel, a distribution specialist that provides an inventory of hotels to B2B clients. But other data was originally collected by Gekko’s third-party partners and external reservations platforms, including Booking.com, Hotelbeds.com, Occius, Infra, Smile, Mondial Assistance and Selectour.com

Exposed data included hotel and transportation booking details, personally identifiable information, invoices with credit card details, and plain-text login credentials used by Gekko’s clients.
Researchers with vpnMentor found the Elasticsearch database while performing an internet mapping project, and ultimately traced the contents to Gekko and its parent accompany AccorHotels, which are both based in France.
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“For two companies of their respective sizes and market shares, Gekko Group and AccorHotels would be expected to have more robust data security. By exposing such a huge amount of sensitive data, they will likely face serious questions over how this happened, and their wider data security policies for all brands they own.”
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vpnMentor: Report: AccorHotels Subsidiary Exposes Hotels and Travelers in Massive Data Leak

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