A hotel check-in system left more than one million customer passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos to the open web after a security lapse. The data is now offline after TechCrunch alerted the company responsible. The hotel check-in system, called Tabiq , is maintained by the Japan-based tech startup Reqrea . According to its website, Tabiq is used in several hotels across Japan and relies on facial recognition and document scanning to check guests in. Independent sec…
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