A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see

A hotel check-in system left more than 1 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 for several hotels across Japan and relies on facial recognition and document scanning to check guests in.