Security breach at marriott exposes data from 500 million customers

The Marriott hotel chain has confirmed what will be one of the most important data leaks in recent times. Since this security breach could affect about 500 million customers. The personal data, and perhaps in some banking cases, of the clients have been exposed as a consequence. The company was alerted to the attack on September 8. Although it was in November when said access was confirmed.

Marriott reveals a security breach exposing data from 500 million customers

The data belongs to clients of Starwood Hotels, which has been owned by the hotel company since 2014. They are said to be currently working on improving security.

Security breach at Marriott

It is estimated that for some 327 of these 500 million customers, the information includes or may include their name, address, email, passport number, date of birth, a history of stays, telephone or Starwood account information. For others affected, it is limited to the name and an email address. There are also people whose bank details have been exposed. But at the moment there are no figures.

At the moment the company is in full investigation of what happened. We don't have much more data about it. So we don't know when this security breach has occurred, or who is behind this attack.

Surely in the coming weeks from Marriott they will provide more information. So we hope to know more soon. But it is a serious data breach that affects the hotel chain.

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