Data breach affects up to 500M Marriott Hotel guests

3,166 views · Published 1 December 2018 · 1:47 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: CBC News: The National · 2018 · News & Politics

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The Marriott hotel chain says up to half a billion people who stayed at Starwood hotels between 2014 and 2018 may have had their personal information stolen. The chain revealed details of the breach, which is so far the second-largest theft of personal data in history, bested only by the Yahoo breach uncovered last year that affected more than three billion accounts.

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