Best Western Hotels security FAIL: 8 million cases of identity theft in biggest hack ever? (Updated)

According to the Sunday Herald, an international criminal gang has pulled off one of the most audacious cyber-heists ever by stealing the identities of an estimated 8 million people – who have all been guests in at least one of the 1300 exi

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Best Western Hotels security FAIL: 8 million cases of identity theft in biggest hack ever? (Updated)

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Robin Wauters is the European Editor of The Next Web.

He describes himself as a hopeless cyberflâneur, a lover of startups, his family a(show all)Robin Wauters is the European Editor of The Next Web.

He describes himself as a hopeless cyberflâneur, a lover of startups, his family and Belgian beer.

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