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Details of some 100 million visitors to Thailand exposed online: research firm
- British firm Comparitech said any foreigner who has travelled to Thailand in the last decade ‘might have had their information exposed’
- Thai authorities ‘maintain the data was not accessed by any unauthorised parties’, it said in a report
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More than 106 million travellers to Thailand had their personal details exposed online in August, a cybersecurity research firm that discovered the data said on Monday, but the leak was quickly plugged by authorities.
The Southeast Asian nation is a popular tourist destination, drawing nearly 40 million visitors in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic shut borders and seized up global travel.
Britain-based consumer security firm Comparitech said in a report that its head of cybersecurity research, Bob Diachenko, found a database in August containing the personal information of travellers to the kingdom.
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He said “any foreigner who travelled to Thailand in the last decade might have had their information exposed in the incident”, including their name, passport number and residency status.
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Comparitech said Diachenko also found his own name and details about his entries into Thailand on the database, which contained information dating back to 2011.
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