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Law firm Morgan & Morgan announced on Thursday that it has filed a class action lawsuit against Marriott over the recently disclosed data breach that has impacted as many as 5.2 million individuals. The complaint filed by Morgan & Morgan in the District of Maryland accuses Marriott of negligence, breach of contract, breach of confidence, and deceptive and unfair trade practices.
We may have to get the government involved to require certain standards to be met via some sort of security framework. The first thing you have to realise is a "Top down" approach to security does not work for a whole heap of reasons.
Marriott International has suffered a new data breach in mid-January 2020, which affected approximately 5.2 million guests. "Although our investigation is ongoing, we currently have no reason to believe that the information involved included Marriott Bonvoy account passwords or PINs, payment card information, passport information, national IDs, or driver's license numbers," Marriott International stated.
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 International has today announced that it has suffered a data breach affecting up to 5.2 million people. When the breach was discovered at the end of February, Marriott International says it disabled those login credentials and began its investigation.
For the second time in two years, the Marriott hotel empire has suffered a major data breach. The stolen bounty includes everything cybercrooks would need to mount convincing spear-phishing campaigns: Full contact details; other personal data like company, gender and birthdays; Marriott's "Bonvoy" loyalty program account numbers and points balances; linked airline loyalty programs and numbers; and Marriott preferences such as stay/room preferences and language preferences.
Marriott on Tuesday disclosed a new data breach that could impact up to 5.2 million of its guests. Marriott says it has invalidated the compromised credentials, but the attackers may have obtained information on as many as 5.2 million individuals.
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.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office has kicked £280m in data breach fines against British Airways and US hotel chain Marriott into the long grass. As spotted by City law firm Mishcon de Reya, the ICO has extended the time before it will fine the two companies what it claimed would be a total of £282m, split between BA's £183m and Marriott's £99m. In a statement the UK's data protection regulator said: "Under Schedule 16 of the Data Protection Act 2018, BA and the ICO have agreed to an extension of the regulatory process until 31 March 2020. As the regulatory process is ongoing we will not be commenting any further at this time."