5.25 Million Passport Numbers Exposed in Breach, Marriott Says
More than 5 million unencrypted passport numbers and about 2,000 unencrypted payment card numbers were exposed in Marriott’s recently disclosed breach (see 1812120034), the company said Friday. The hotel company decreased its original estimate of total guests affected from some…
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500 million to fewer than 383 million unique guests. The attack, which Secretary of State Mike Pompeo linked to the Chinese government, included 5.25 million unencrypted passport numbers and 20.3 million encrypted passport numbers, Marriott said. Compromised data included 8.6 million encrypted payment cards and potentially fewer than 2,000 unencrypted payment card numbers. There’s no evidence hackers accessed master encryption keys needed to decrypt the secure numbers, the hospitality company said. Marriott discontinued operation of its Starwood reservations database, which was compromised.