Another day, another hack. As we referenced yesterday with respect to the Dunkin’ Donuts hack, it seems that we can’t even go a week without a new high-profile security breach making the news. In light of that, a more serious security breach appears to have impacted Marriott. Specifically, the hotel chain today revealed that an unauthorized party accessed its Starwood guest reservation database this past September.
Marriott relays that it first became aware of the breach on September 8th when an internal security tool flagged an attempt by someone aiming to access the aforementioned reservation database. Upon consulting with outside security experts, Marriott ultimately realized that someone had been accessing the database since 2014 and had been copying all sorts of sensitive information.
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Marriott reveals that hackers accessed sensitive information of 500 million guests originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 16:15:31 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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