Starwood hacked with over 500 million customer details accessed

Starwood hacked with over 500 million customer details accessed
By Matthew Hughes


If you’ve stayed at a Starwood hotel in the past few years, it’s time to buy some credit monitoring. The Marriott International-owned hotel brand has reported a massive hack that saw the details of over 500 million customers accessed by an unauthorized party. The hotel chain says that the attackers have been able to access the company’s internal network — including the guest reservation database — since 2014. For 327 million unlucky customers, the data accessed includes sensitive personal information like address details and passport numbers. Marriott International, which acquired Starwood in 2016, says the information also contains payment card…

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November 30, 2018 at 10:34PM
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