A Japanese search engine designed primarily for the purpose of helping people find Love Hotels and book rooms suffered a data breach last year at a time when the world was gearing up to celebrate Christmas. The search engine HappyHotel.jp offers similar services like Booking.com but the difference is that registered users can book rooms in Love Hotels.
The news of the data breach at HappyHotel.jp was posted by its parent company Almex. The company stated that unauthorized access to its servers was noticed on December 22, and the hacker managed to gain access to huge reserves of sensitive data.
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ZDNet reports that the hacked data may have included user names, date of birth, home addresses, gender information, phone numbers, credit card information and email IDs of the site’s customers.
In Japan, there is a trend of operating love hotels, also called sex hotels, where guests can book rooms on a short-term basis for indulging in sexual activities. Anyone can book a room from dating to married couples and even cheating spouses.
Such Hotels can be found anywhere in the world, but the trend is particularly widespread in East Asia and Japan. In fact, Japan tops the list ..
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