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Italy probes hotel data breaches following theft of thousands of ID document scans

( August 13, 2025, 13:18 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Italian data protection authority is launching an investigation into several hotels reporting IT breaches and the theft of scans of thousands of identity documents. The high-resolution scans are of passports, identity cards and other documents presented by guests at check-in. The authority is calling on other hotels that could be affected to come forward and notify guests whose data may be involved, as per data protection law. It recommends hoteliers to use the secure guest data processing methods provided by the state.Statement, in Italian, follows:...

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