Travelodge is the latest company to fall prey to the recent spate of hack-attacks, with its customer database having been compromised.

A spokesperson has confirmed that "a limited number of people" were affected and that no financial data was stolen.

However, it has sent out a letter to its customers warning that their email addresses may have been stolen.

Spam attack

The letter, signed by CEO Guy Parsons, reads:

"Our main priority is to ensure the security of our customers' data, which is why I wanted to make you aware that a small number of you may have received a spam email via the email address you have registered with us."

"Please be assured, we have not sold any customer data and no financial information has been compromised.

"The safety and security of your personal information is of the upmost importance to us and as a result we are currently conducting a comprehensive investigation into this issue."

Although stealing email addresses isn't exactly on the scale of something like the Sony PlayStation Network breach, it's becoming ever clearer that most businesses need to up their web security game.

Whether or not Travelodge will be siccing that gangster teddy bear on the hackers remains to be seen.

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who yesterday settled a long-running court case against Facebook for a not-too-shabby payout of £48 million, have filed a new lawsuit against the social network and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

The new case, filed in Boston, suggests that Facebook and Zuckerberg "intentionally or inadvertently suppressed evidence" in the recently-settled lawsuit.

The Winklevosses and their partner Divya Narendra have long maintained that Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for a social network while at Harvard University, repurposed it into Facebook and became the mega multimillionaire that he is today.

It's not over 'til it's over

The filing claims that Facebook and other parties withheld evidence from the Winklevosses and their lawyers, including a bizarre twist in which the twin's new legal team are having trouble getting files from their old legal team.

Having been immortalised in David Fincher's The Social Network, the Winklevoss twins' never-ending quest for justice has not done much to endear them to the Facebook-using public.

If the courts rule in favour of the Winklevii in this new case, it could give the twins the fuel they need to re-open the previous case.

Lucky for the Hollywood franchise - that should be enough fuel to take it up to The Social Network 5 or 6, by our reckoning.