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110 million Euro fine for Marriott hotel chain

Date: 09.07.2019

Responsible body: Marriott Hotel Chain

Type of data breach: 339 million customer data were probably compromised

At the end of 2018 a hacker attack on the hotel chain became known. Presumably 339 million customer data were compromised. Third parties had illegally accessed the reservation database of the Marriott subsidiary Starwood. It was mainly names and address information, but also confidential passport and credit card data that were affected. Some of it was even unencrypted.

Categories of data: Address data, passport data, credit card data

Practical tip: Data encryption

Country: Great Britain

Fines: GBP 99,2 million (approximately EUR 110 million)

Source: heise

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