Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels will pay $52 million and create a comprehensive information security program as part of settlements for data breaches that impacted over 344 million customers.
Hotel giant Marriott International confirmed this week that it was hit by another data breach after an unknown threat actor managed to breach one of its properties and steal 20 GB worth of files.
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Marriott International today revealed that the personal information of roughly 5.2 million hotel guests was impacted in a data breach incident detected at the end of February 2020.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) intends to fine Marriott International Inc £99,200,396 ($123,705,869 / €110,385,736) for infringing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) according to a press release published today.
In November 2018, Marriott announced that there was unauthorized access to their Starwood reservation system & that the data for up to 500 million guests had been compromised. In an update today for this incident, Marriott has lowered the amount of affected victims, but states 5.25 million unencrypted passport numbers were accessed.
Marriott announced today that the guest database from the Starwood chain of hotels was hacked in 2014 and personal information of up to 500 million guests may be compromised.