Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-11-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: Marriott International
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Accommodation and Food Services
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Political-Espionage
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The records of 500 million customers of the hotel group Marriott International are compromised. In particular the guest reservation database of its Starwood division has been compromised by an unauthorised party since 2014.