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Hackers steal tens of thousands of guest IDs from Italian hotels
13 Aug 2025 13:35
ROME (dpa)A criminal hacker group has obtained the personal data of tens of thousands of holidaymakers from Italian hotels, collected from ID documents required at group, called Mydocs, has been offering around 70,000 documents for sale online in recent days, Italian police said on breach affected high-end hotels in cities such as Venice and Trieste, as well as on the island of to police, the hackers illegally accessed the booking systems of various hotels starting in June. This allowed them to acquire high-resolution scans of passports, ID cards and other documents used by tourists and business state agency for digital affairs (AgID) said the documents are now being sold on the dark web in pixelated form, with prices ranging from $937 to $11, to the newspaper Corriere del Veneto, one of the hotels affected is the four-star Ca' dei Conti in Venice, where 38,000 documents were reportedly stolen.
In Italy, guests must present ID at hotel check-in, which is typically copied at the reception. Many hotels now use computer systems to automate this digitisation process.
