
24/11/2023
Taj Hotels suffers data breach, exposes information of 1.5 million customers
Tata-owned Taj Hotels group has suffered a data breach that has exposed information of over 1.5 million customers, according to a news report.
According to a report from CNBC-TV18, a bad actor going by the handle, "Dnacookies" has demanded a sum of $5,000 (about Rs 4.16 lakh) as ransom for the full dataset. It apparently includes addresses, membership IDs, mobile numbers and other personally identifiable information, according to sources close to the publication.
"We have been made aware of someone claiming possession of a limited data customer data set, which is non-sensitive in nature," A spokesperson for the Indian Hotels Company Ltd. (IHCL), which manages the Taj Group, told CNBC-TV18.