Technology9 Nov 2026SEO 801 min read

Analysis: Hotel giant Wyndham exposed customer data after app security lapse

Hotel and resort giant Wyndham has acknowledged a cybersecurity incident after a good-faith security researcher discovered a bug that allowed anyone to access…

Hotel and resort giant Wyndham has acknowledged a cybersecurity incident after a good-faith security researcher discovered a bug that allowed anyone to access customers’ personal information. Security researcher Robert Wiggins at What Security exclusively told TechCrunch that he found a password inside the source code of Wyndham’s Android app, which granted access to an internal company database, hosted by tech company Salesforce. Wiggins told TechCrunch that the credential exposed…

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