Potential data breach at The Ritz
London’s Ritz hotel is investigating a potential data breach by ‘extremely convincing’ scammers who posed as hotel staff to steal payment card details from diners.
The hotel is investigating a potential data breach and said it has alerted the Information Commissioner’s Officers (ICO), the BBC reports.
The scammers phoned people with exact details of their restaurant bookings, asking them to ‘confirm’ card details, then tried to spend thousands of pounds at Argos.
It’s not known how they got the information.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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