Return To ArticleIn November 2018, hotel giant Marriott disclosed that it had suffered one of the largest breaches in history. That hack compromised the information of 500 million people who had made a reservation at a Starwood hotel. On Tuesday, Marriott announced that it had once again been hit, with up to 5.2 million guests at risk. Which is a kind of progress, in a way?
The details of this latest hack seem to be not quite as devastating as the last one, too, given that sensitive information like passport numbers doesn’t seem to be affected. Still, that a major company could get hit twice in such a relatively short time frame underscores how at-risk your data is—and how not enough is being done to protect it.
