Centaur Hotel hacked
By Shalini Singh

If you have recently hired a room at the Centaur Hotels in India, your personal data may have been compromised.  

Bangalore Aviation, which reports on the aviation sector, has published hard evidence showing how people’s passports, credit cards, driving licenses were stored in a manner that any hacker could get through to them

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At a time when the Government of India is imposing draconian rules on internet services providers, and battles are raging on the issue of privacy, or the lack thereof, the website of Centaur Hotels (centaurhotels.com) is allowing access to hundreds of passport copies, credit cards, and other forms of personal identification of their guests staying at New Delhi IGI airport property.

The Centaur Hotels is a unit of the Hotel Corporation of India, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of India's national carrier Air India which in turn is 100% owned by the Government of India.

This is an unbelievable shocking failure to enforce even the most basic internet security norms at any level. It requires no special skills and the link is out there in the open. A young student known to me, downloaded all the passport copies and some copies of credit cards within a few minutes without any special tools.

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