Marriott Discloses 2nd Data Breach in Less than 2 Years
Marriott Discloses 2nd Data Breach in Less than 2 Years Marriott International, Inc., the world's largest hotel chain, recently disclosed a second data breach in a span of less than two years. Marriott, which owns over 7,300 hotels and licenses vacation ownership resorts in 134 countries and territories, in a statement, said that it became aware of this new data breach at the end of February 2020. The company believes that this latest data breach started way back in mid-January 2020. Marriott said this latest data breach affected 5.2 million guests and the following information may have been breached: 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); Additional personal details (e.g., company, gender, and birthday…
