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Marriott Suffers Second Breach Exposing Data of 5.2 Million Hotel Guests
2020-03-31 08:52

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.

UK data watchdog kicks £280m British Airways and Marriott GDPR fines into legal long grass
2020-01-13 09:06

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."

GDPR superpowers lead to whopper ICO fines for BA, Marriott
2019-07-11 11:20

The ICO isn't pulling its punches: The penalty for BA's data breach is about 367 times higher than the previous record-setting fine.

Marriott to Contest $124 Million Fine Imposed by UK Data Protection Regulator
2019-07-10 12:04

Marriott International says it will fight a large fine resulting from a massive data breach that was discovered in 2018. read more

Marriott Faces $123 Million Fine in UK for Data Breach
2019-07-10 01:32

Marriott says it will fight a $123 million U.K. government fine related to its massive data breach. Marriott has the right to respond to the proposed fine before a final determination is made by...

Marriott Faces $123 Million GDPR Fine Over Starwood Data Breach
2019-07-09 20:03

After fining British Airways with a record fine of £183 million earlier this week, the UK's data privacy regulator is now planning to slap world's biggest hotel chain Marriott International with a...

Marriott's got 99 million problems and the ICO's one: Starwood hack mega-fine looms over
2019-07-09 18:15

Technically not yet A Thing but there's a war of words over it The UK's Information Commissioner's Office wants to fine Marriott Hotels £99m over its loss of 383 million customer booking records...

Marriott Hit With $123M Fine For Massive 2018 Data Breach
2019-07-09 16:00

The data breach fine against Marriott by the Information Commissioner's Office comes a day after British Airways was also penalized.

Marriott Faces $125 Million GDPR Fine Over Mega-Breach
2019-07-09 15:33

Breach Persisted 4 Years - and Through Acquisition - Before Being DiscoveredBritain's privacy watchdog says it plans to fine hotel giant Marriott $125 million under GDPR for security failures tied...

Week in review: Marriott breach details, public-interest technology, the quantum computer threat
2019-03-17 19:45

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: Marriott CEO reveals more details about the massive data breach Equifax CEO Mark Begor and Arne Sorenson, the CEO of...