A hacker has stolen more than 100,000 copies in high resolution of identity documents made when customers arrive in these hotels.
Tens of thousands of scans of tourist identity papers have been stolen from Italian hotels servers and sold on the Dark Web, alerted the Italian digital agency (AGID). The Agid “Detected an illegal selling activity of identity documents that would have been stolen from hotels operating on Italian territoryshe announced in a statement this Thursday, August 14. These are dozens of thousands of scans in high passports, identity cards and other identity documents used by customers during check-in operations. ”
The agency, in several successive press releases in recent days, evokes nearly 100,000 documents stolen. The author having put these documents on sale, known under the pseudonym «mydocs»said he obtained them “Thanks to unauthorized access to computer systems, between June and August 2025”. A total of ten hotels based on Italian territory are affected by this hacking, but “It is not excluded that other cases can emerge in the coming days”warn the authorities.
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The agency also alerts “Consequences for victims who can be serious, both economically and legal”recalling that these data, once stolen, “Can be used for fraudulent purposes: creation of false documents, opening of bank accounts, digital identity theft”.
Hotels and hotels reservations are regularly targets of cyber attacks, Marriott, Caesars and the Booking.com groups have notably been victims.
