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500 million Marriott customers hit by data breach - MSE News

Former_MSE_Naomi Posts: 519 Forumite

30 November 2018 at 12:51PM in Overseas holidays & travel planning

Around 500 million Marriott customers who made reservations at one of the hotel group's Starwood properties have had their details compromised after a data hack...

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'500 million Marriott customers hit by data breach'

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  hollie.weimeraner Posts: 2,155 Forumite

  

  30 November 2018 at 8:17PM

  This occurred over a period of approximately 4 years. The breach was first noted in 2014. Makes you wonder what the IT department has been doing in that time.

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  jonesMUFCforever Posts: 28,898 Forumite

  

  30 November 2018 at 8:23PM

  500 million! Go on it must be a few people who constantly book with them LOL

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  boo_star Posts: 3,202 Forumite

  

  1 December 2018 at 6:33AM

  jonesMUFCforever wrote: »

  500 million! Go on it must be a few people who constantly book with them LOL

  
  Yeah there's no way there are 500 million unique customers.
  
  That's 1/14th of the worlds population.
  
  I'd be surprised if 1/14 had even heard of Starwood let alone used it.

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