Italy's digital agency (AGID) says a cybercriminal's claims concerning a spate of data thefts affecting various hotels across the country are genuine.

The miscreant, operating under the alias of mydocs, claims to have gained access to the booking systems used by Italian hotels and stolen thousands of guests' sensitive ID documents between June and August.

AGID said on Wednesday the total number of affected hotels has risen to ten, a number that could go up further in the coming days.

Across various posts to a cybercrime forum, mydocs claims to have listed nearly 100,000 individual identity documents, including passports and other ID cards.

Cybercriminals often make salacious claims about their nefarious exploits on these kinds of forums, and often they are either inflated, exaggerated,

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