Starwood
Marriott agrees to pay $50 million to its users of 50 states for data breach
Marriott n Starwood have reached an agreement to pay a substantial penalty of $51 million following their failure to adequately protect user information during a significant data breach. This penalty will be allocated to approximately 341 million individuals affected across all 50 states in the U.S., as part of a settlement related to three separate […]
Marriott hotel discloses official Cyber Attack figures
Marriott hotel has finally made an official disclosure of what was stolen from the reservation system database of its business subsidiary Starwood Hotels last year. An official statement from the company says that over 383 million customer records were siphoned by the hackers in the said cyber incident. And the stolen info includes 25.55 million […]
Cyber Attack on Starwood Marriott linked to Chinese Ministry of State Security
While, all these days we have seen companies coming under cyber attack and law enforcement agencies blaming US adversaries like Russia, North Korea, and Iran for the incidents. But now, renowned news resource in the United States- The New York Times claims that it has evidence that the Chinese Ministry of State Security was behind […]
Data of 500 million Starwood Marriott Hotel customers compromised in Cyber Attack
Marriott International has disclosed that the data of more than 500 million guests was compromised in September this year which happens to be the biggest in the last 5 years. The compromised details include Passport info, credit card details, and names & phone numbers of guests who checked into the Starwood properties on or before […]
