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Hotel giant Marriott International confirmed it was hit by another data breach after an unknown threat actor breached one of its properties and stole 20GB of files. "The threat actor used social engineering to trick one associate at a single Marriott hotel into providing access to the associate's computer. The threat actor did not impersonate any Marriott vendor."

Hotel giant Marriott International confirmed it was hit by another data breach after an unknown threat actor breached one of its properties and stole 20GB of files. "The threat actor used social engineering to trick one associate at a single Marriott hotel into providing access to the associate's computer. The threat actor did not impersonate any Marriott vendor."

Marriott Hotels has leaked data to attackers again and this time the culprits made off with 20GB of information, which reportedly included credit card info and internal company documents. The unnamed group behind the attack contacted privacy news site DataBreaches to share the news that it broke into a server at the Marriott hotel at Boston/Washington International Airport in Maryland late last month.

Data breach of NFT marketplace OpenSea may expose customers to phishing attacks. The breach was caused by an employee at Customer.io, the email delivery vendor for OpenSea.

OpenSea, the largest non-fungible token marketplace, disclosed a data breach on Wednesday and warned users of phishing attacks that could target them in the coming days. The company's Head Of Security, Cory Hardman, said that an employee of Customer.io, the platform's email delivery vendor, downloaded email addresses belonging to OpenSea users and newsletter subscribers.

A 36-year-old former Amazon employee was convicted of wire fraud and computer intrusions in the U.S. for her role in the theft of personal data of no fewer than 100 million people in the 2019 Capital One breach. Paige Thompson, who operated under the online alias "Erratic" and worked for the tech giant till 2016, was found guilty of wire fraud, five counts of unauthorized access to a protected computer and damaging a protected computer.

Flagstar Bank is notifying 1.5 million customers of a data breach where hackers accessed personal data during a December cyberattack. According to data breach notifications sent to exposed customers, Flagstar experienced a security incident in December 2021 when intruders breached the bank's corporate network.

Kaiser Permanente suffered a data breach due to email compromise on April 5 that potentially exposed the medical records of nearly 70,000 patients, the company revealed earlier this month.Attackers gained access to the emails of an employee at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington that contained "Protected health information," the company revealed in a letter to affected clients on June 3.

Kaiser Permanente, one of America's leading not-for-profit health plans and health care providers, has recently disclosed a data breach that exposed the health information of more than 69,000 individuals. Founded in 1945, Kaiser Permanente provides health care services to over 12.5 million members from 8 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. The company revealed in a notice published on its website that an attacker accessed an employee's email account containing patients' protected health information on April 5, 2022, without authorization.

Shields Health Care Group suffered a data breach that exposed the data of approximately 2,000,000 people in the United States after hackers breached their network and stole data.Shields is a Massachusetts-based medical services provider specializing in MRI and PET/CT diagnostic imaging, radiation oncology, and ambulatory surgical services.