It was in late 2018 that Marriott suffered a major breach: Revealed: Marriott's 500 Million Hack Came After A String Of Security Breaches:
On Friday, hospitality giant Marriott revealed a massive hack led to the theft of personal data of a whopping 500 million customers of its Starwood hotels.
To some onlookers the breach, one of the biggest on record, was astonishing. To those who’ve been tracking Marriott and Starwood digital security, it wasn’t a huge surprise. Prior to the four-year-old breach being discovered, Marriott suffered at least one previously unreported hack, including an infection that hit the company’s own cyber-incident response team, Forbes has learned. And there’s evidence Russian cybercriminals have breached Starwood Web servers.
Now we are hearing about another breach: Marriott International Notifies Guests of Property System Incident:
At the end of February 2020, the company identified that an unexpected amount of guest information may have been accessed using the login credentials of two employees at a franchise property. The company believes that this activity started in mid-January 2020. ...
At this point, the company believes that the following information may have been involved for up to approximately 5.2 million guests, although not all of this information was present for every guest involved:
-contact details (e.g., name, mailing address, email address, and phone number)
-loyalty account information (e.g., account number and points balance, but not passwords)
-partnerships and affiliations (e.g., linked airline loyalty programs and numbers)
-preferences (e.g., stay/room preferences and language preference)
One doesn't have to be paranoid to suspect that anything that gets put on the internet is hackable.
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3:27 PM 3/31/2020
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