Another day, another hack. As we referenced yesterday with respect to the Dunkin‘ Donuts hack, it seems that we can’t even go a week without a new high-profile security breach making the news. In light of that, a more serious security breach appears to have impacted Marriott.<\/b>
\nAnother day, another hack. As we referenced yesterday with respect to the Dunkin\u2019 Donuts hack, it seems that we can\u2019t even go a week without a new high-profile security breach making the news. In light of that, a more serious security breach appears to have impacted Marriott. Specifically, the hotel chain today revealed that an unauthorized party accessed its Starwood guest reservation database this past September.
Marriott relays that it first became aware of the breach on September 8th when an internal security tool flagged an attempt by someone to gain access to the reservation database. Upon consulting with outside security experts, Marriott ultimately realized that someone had been accessing the database since 2014 and had been copying information.
All told, information involving upwards of 500 million guests were compromised over the last four years. And speaking to the gravity of the breach, Marriott describes the extent of the compromised information as follows:
Hacks certainly happen with regularity these days, but what makes this particular incident stand out is how long the breach went completely undetected.<\/p>\n