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Best Western hack and data leak phishing emails SCAM "Your booking is currently being held for you, but it still requires a quick confirmation"

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There is an active phishing SCAM campaign targeting Best Western customers using stolen booking data. Victims receive WhatsApp messages containing their real name, booking reference, hotel, and dates. I have: Contacted the hotel chain for further clarification and to find out why they are still leaking data a month or two after the original breach. UPDATE 1st April 2026: Their unnamed data protection DPO@bwhhotels.co.uk has replied saying "This incident has unfortunately affected a number of organisations across the hospitality sector." and have failed to provide me with any information about how the information was compramised, or why they're still leaking data months after the breach. I've chased them up on this. I've also asked whether this has been referred to the ICO. Reported the business number to WhatsApp Reported the malware to CloudFlare. Here’s what the scam looks like and how to protect yourself. Shortly after making a booking I received a WhatsApp m...
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Create a subsite in SharePoint Online in 2026

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Microsoft recommends a flat hiearchy in SharePoint however if you need to create a subsite this can be done from the New  menu in the Site Contents . If you find that Subsite isn't available on this menu it may be disabled at the tenant level. You can enable this by going to  SharePoint Admin Center > Settings > Classic settings page https:// you-admin-site /_layouts/15/online/TenantSettings.aspx  
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SOLVED: Error installing Nuget Package "Could not find a part of the path "...Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions.targets"

When you try and install Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions package (or something that depends on it such as  Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlManagementObjects you may see the following error: Could not find a part of the path ' path \packages\Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions.8.0.2\buildTransitive/net461/Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions.targets'. This error can occur if the path  is too long. A quick fix is to move the entire project folder higher up to the root path of the drive, install the packages and then move it back to the previous location.
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