Japanese ‘love hotel’ booking platform suffers data breach exposing names, emails and card details of users – SmartCompany

When it comes to protecting user data, there’s personal information and then there’s, ahem, personal information. And, while one would have thought all software startups understand the importance of cyber security by now, that should be especially true of those working in the extramarital sex space.

But, alas, Japanese startup HappyHotel, a search engine for finding and booking rooms in so-called ‘love hotels’ has found itself the victim of a hack that’s caused it to head offline and cease all operations.

via Japanese ‘love hotel’ booking platform suffers data breach exposing names, emails and card details of users – SmartCompany.