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Amadeus Traveler Data Exposed in a Thwarted Data Leak

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Sean O'Neill
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Photo Credit: An image of Tel Aviv's international airport, Ben Gurion. A database of an Israeli travel tech subsidiary of Amadeus exposed the records of many passengers before being fixed. Israel Airports Authority

Skift Take

Case closed. But data breaches seem never-ending.

A computer expert discovered a vulnerability in one of the systems used by travel distribution company Amadeus, which said it had fixed the issue and that none of the data was misused. Alp, an Israel-based travel subsidiary, is an online service used by Israeli travel agents and governmental travel agency Inbal to book flights and hotels. It had a database with a weakness that could be pried open to rev

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