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Booking.com confirmed "some accommodation partners were targeted" but denied a security breach.

"I felt really stupid because I've never been close to being scammed," he says. "Hotels will very rarely contact you on WhatsApp," chief executive Kate Nicholls says. "I thought this must be OK," he tells BBC News. "I got a text message from my bank and I had a phone call from them and they said someone was trying to scam me out of my money." Booking.com said it had "actively been supporting our partners, as well as any potentially impacted customers" and continued "to make security and data protection a top priority". Booking.com confirmed to BBC News that "some accommodation partners had been targeted by phishing emails" but denied it had suffered a data-security breach.