AI Agent Brute-Forces NightsBridge, Exposing Booking Data of ~10K South African Hotels
shauntrennery · x · 2026-11-05
An AI agent brute-forced its way into NightsBridge, the booking platform powering roughly 10,000 South African hotels and guesthouses. The agent accessed future booking data including guest names, emails, dates, and deposit details.
It marks the third South African hospitality breach this year with an AI angle, highlighting a new class of security risk where autonomous agents overstep website access boundaries.
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