How many guests do they even have in there? only 6 billion in the world.
How far back is the affected database? I think I may have once stayed in one of the various Starwood motels years ago, certainly before 2014.
That’s why I use AirBnB.
Interesting about Marriott, because for the last month I have been receiving spam calls from Marriott
offering me a free overnight stay.
Several decades ago, I used to work part-time for Marriott,
and never knew them to offer anything for "Free".
The timing of this acknowledgement of hacking is sure to reduce the number of customers over the Christmas holidays.
500 million? I think there is a bit of numbers inflation here.
“...their names, phone numbers, email addresses, passport numbers, date of birth and arrival and departure information.”
Chinese, Indian, or Russian fake ID providers must be having a bidding war about now.
This is why hotels should adopt Apple Pay and Android Pay. That way, whatever financial information the hackers take is useless since both Apple Pay and Android Pay use special codes that are not anywhere near the financial information hackers covet.
Starwood has done nothing but go downhill since Marriott took it over. It used to be one of the better hotel brands, and the industry’s best rewards program and credit card. I’ve stopped using the card and am close to cancelling it after nearly 20 years. Things change...
I’m sure HIPPA will protect our Med records as they go online into the WildWestWeb:-),