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Quest Apartment Hotels - 1.5 Million Guest Records, and the Attacker Who Never Touched Quest's Systems
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Quest Apartment Hotels – 1.5 Million Guest Records, and the Attacker Who Never Touched Quest's Systems
A deep-dive into Australia's biggest hospitality breach of 2026 — and the vendor-ecosystem attack pattern behind it.
On Monday 17 August 2026, Quest Apartment Hotels — 160+ properties, founded in Melbourne in 1988, majority-owned since 2017 (and fully since 2022) by Singapore's The Ascott Limited — identified unauthorised access to a database system. The entry point wasn't Quest's own…
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