US EditionSpanish Police Arrest Hacker for Booking Luxury Hotels at One Cent
A 20-year-old Spanish man exploited a payment validation flaw to book luxury hotel rooms for €0.01, causing over €20,000 in losses, police said.
- Spanish police arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly hacking a hotel booking website to reserve luxury rooms for as little as one cent.
- The suspect is believed to have manipulated the site's payment system, altering the validation process so that bookings appeared fully paid.
- During several hotel stays, the man allegedly racked up more than €20,000 in losses for the hotels.
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And he didn't deprive himself of anything, he consumed the products from the mini-bar regardless of leaving outstanding debts.
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tz.deThe affected hotel reported damage of more than 20,000 euros. The man was placed in a luxury hotel in Madrid with a four-day reservation of more than 4,000 euros.
Arrested: Hacker booked luxury hotels for €1 cent
Spanish police have arrested a 20-year-old man accused of a sophisticated cyber scam that allowed him to book luxury hotel rooms for just one cent each night. This has been the first known case of its kind involving manipulation of an online hotel booking payment system, although no one is discarding the possibility it has been happening before, just going undetected. The suspect… Source
The police suspect that the man interfered with the operation of the payment system through a cyber attack.
A 20-year-old is said to have manipulated a payment system and lived for 0.01 euros at the luxury hotel Ritz in Madrid. Damage: over 20,000 euros.
A habitual hacker who booked a 1.7 million won hotel room in Spain for just 17 won was arrested. A man in his 20s who hacked a hotel reservation website in Spain was arrested. The man was found to have booked a luxury room worth 1.7 million won a night for just 17 won. According to foreign media outlets such as AFP on the 18th (local time), the Spanish national
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