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STARWOOD ( MARRIOTT ) DATA BREACH
DATE : NOVEMBER 2018 NUMBER OF RECORDS COMPROMISED : 500M GUESTS
International , a multinational hotel firm , informed customers in November 2018 of a data breach resulting in the possible disclosure of credit cards , passport numbers and other identifying information belonging to 500 million customers .
Upon investigating internally , Marriott found that hackers had encrypted data and removed it from the Starwood system . The breach was also discovered to have first occurred in 2014 , but was not discovered for four years . As a result , Marriott was fined US $ 23.8m for failing to meet GDPR standards . 38 August 2024