By now, everyone is aware that hotel giant Marriott International announced on Friday a massive data breach that goes back more than four years and may have affected up to 500 million customers worldwide. The breach — which began in 2014 and involves Marriott-owned Starwood Hotels & Resorts’ guest reservation databases — is one of the largest in history. It’s also the second major security breach Starwood has reported. In November 2015, the company disclosed that malware had infected point-of-sale systems at dozens of its properties throughout the United States and Canada...Read here
