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Your name, address, phone number, email address, passport number, date of birth, and sex are worth just £0.05 in the eyes of the UK Information Commissioner's Office, which has fined Marriott £18.4m after 339 million people's data was stolen from the hotel chain. Within the exposed data were 5.25 million guests' passport numbers, stored without encryption, as well as 18.5 million encrypted passport numbers and 9.1 million encrypted credit card numbers.
While hotel Wi-Fi is convenient, security is not the priority, federal government says.
Wi-Fi networks in hotels typically favor guest convenience over strong security practices, says the FBI. As the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown have forced a shift to remote work, many people are working not just from home but from public locations. In a new warning about hotel Wi-Fi, the FBI provides several tips on how to protect yourself when using such a public network.
Scope of last summer’s data leak at the hotel chain appears to be far more expansive than previously thought.
Researchers have found 142 million personal details from former guests at the MGM Resorts hotels for sale on the Dark Web, evidence that a data leak from the hotel chain last summer may be far bigger in scope than previously thought. In the ad, the hacker makes a connection between the newly advertised credentials and a previously known leak of personal details of more than 10.6 million guests who had stayed at MGM Resorts.
Miscreants have been nabbing British supermarket chain Tesco Clubcard discount codes to snap up Hotels.com rewards meant for holders of the retailer's loyalty cards. The 13-character discount code used the same first five characters, then three numbers for the discount amount, a colon, and then four final characters.
Marriott Hotels has suffered its second data spillage in as many years after an "Unexpected amount" of guests' data was accessed through two compromised employee logins, the under-fire chain has confirmed. The size of the latest data exposure has not been disclosed, though Marriott admitted it seemed to have started in January 2020 and was detected "At the end of February."
Marriott Hotels has suffered its second data spillage in as many years after an "Unexpected amount" of guests' data was accessed through two compromised employee logins, the under-fire chain has confirmed. The size of the latest data exposure has not been disclosed, though Marriott admitted it seemed to have started in January 2020 and was detected "At the end of February."
Marriott Hotels has suffered its second data spillage in as many years after an "Unexpected amount" of guests' data was accessed through two compromised employee logins, the under-fire chain has confirmed. The size of the latest data exposure has not been disclosed, though Marriott admitted it seemed to have started in January 2020 and was detected "At the end of February."
International hotel chain Marriott today disclosed a data breach impacting nearly 5.2 million hotel guests, making it the second security incident to hit the company in recent years. The hospitality giant said an investigation into the breach was ongoing, but said there was no evidence that Marriott Bonvoy account passwords or PINs, payment card information, passport information, national IDs, or driver's license numbers were compromised.