![]() ![]() ![]() Marriott says that this larger group had different combinations of name, address, phone number, email address, date of birth, gender, trip and reservation information, passport number, and Starwood Preferred Guest account information stolen. About 170 million impacted Marriott customers only had their names and basic information like address or email address stolen, but about 327 million people lost much more. The stolen data would be an espionage bonanza for government hackers, though. Reports have increasingly indicated state-sponsored Chinese hackers were behind the attack, though this attribution has not been officially confirmed. Marriott says it blocked attacker access by September 10, but it took until November 19 for the company to fully understand the scale of the breach. The hack originated at Starwood's reservation system Marriott acquired that hotel group in September 2016, but the intrusion went undetected until September 8 of this year. At the end of November, the massive hotel chain Marriott announced that as many as 500 million travelers who made a reservation at a Starwood hotel since 2014 had their data compromised. ![]()
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