Did you enjoy your Stay at Marriott or Sheraton in last 4 years - Now, here is some bad news - Marriott said that a massive data breach of its guest reservation system has left up to 500 million guests’ data. the attackers may have had access to the systems for at least FOUR YEARS BEFORE BEING DISCOVERED.

Another  Example for "Prevention is Ideal but Detection is a MUST".

The hotel company said in a statement on its website that hackers gained access to the Starwood reservation database. Starwood, which includes hotels like St. Regis and Sheraton, was bought by Marriott in 2016.


Marriott said that hackers stole data like name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, Starwood Preferred Guest account information, date of birth, gender, arrival and departure information, reservation date, and communication preferences for 327 million of these guests.

https://threatpost.com/2014-marriott-data-breach-exposed-500m-guests-impacted/139507/