Tens of thousands of Italian hotel guests may be hit by cyber heist

The Italian government has warned that identity documents belonging to tens of thousands of people who had stayed at hotels in the country allegedly have been stolen and are being illegally sold online.

According to the computer emergency response team at the Agency for Digital Italy (CERT-AGID), at the last count a cybercriminal going by the handle “mydocs” had offered more than 90,000 documents for sale.

The documents, allegedly obtained from 10 different Italian hotels, are high-resolution scans of identity-confirming materials used during check-ins, including passports and other forms of official ID cards. The “mydocs” account has attempted to sell these in several tranches starting last week on what CERT-AGID called “a well-known underground forum.”

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