Catalin Cimpanu reports that Marriott has updated its assessment of the impact of a massive data breach disclosed in November. On a positive note, fewer people were affected than the 500 million originally estimated: “Marriott has identified approximately 383 million records as the upper limit for the total number of guest records that were involved…
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Marriott says data breach compromised info of up to 500 million guests
Erik Ortiz reports: Marriott International said Friday that up to 500 million guests’ information may have been accessed as part of a data breach of its Starwood guest reservation database. The world’s largest hotel chain said it determined on Nov. 19 that an “unauthorized party” had accessed the database as early as 2014. Read more…
Thousands of Guests’ Data May Have Been Hacked at Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt Hotels
What, again? Reuters reports: A data breach at 20 U.S. hotels operated by HEI Hotels & Resorts for Starwood, Marriott, Hyatt and Intercontinental may have divulged payment card data from tens of thousands of food, drink and other transactions, HEI said on Sunday. The breach follows similar attacks at Hyatt Hotels and Starwood Hotels &…
Hungarian citizen who attempted to extort Marriott International into giving him a job sentenced to prison
As an update to a case previously mentioned on this blog, Dow Jones Newswire reports that Attila Nemeth has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort Marriott International into giving him a job by illegally acquiring their confidential propietary data. Nemeth, who arguably should be considered for a role in any reality…
Hungarian Citizen Pleads Guilty to Hacking into Marriott Computers and Attempting to Extort Employment from the Company
A Hungarian citizen pleaded guilty today to intentionally causing damage by transmitting a malicious code to Marriott International Corporation computers and to threatening to reveal confidential information obtained from the company’s computers if Marriott did not offer him a job. Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced the guilty…
Marriott Vacation Club Intl reports data loss involving paper records
On December 27, Marriott Ownership Resorts (d/b/a Marriott Vacation Club International) learned that _____ timeshare maintenance fee payment slips that had been processed by _____________ Bank were in a box that had been damaged in transit to Marriott’s corporate offices by major overnight shipping service, ________ and that some of the payment slips had been…