Names, email addresses and passport numbers are among the details affected by a data breach at the Marriott hotel group, which owns Dublin's Westin Hotel. The data breach occurred after the guest reservation database of the chain's Starwood division in the US was compromised. A staggering 500 million guests' data may have been exposed during the breach, which began in 2014 and was spotted on September 8 this year. The database stored information including passport numbers, dates of births, names, addresses and phone numbers for 327 million guests. "We have received a data breach report from Marriott Hotels involving its Starwood hotels and will be making inquiries," a spokeswoman said.

Source: Evening echo November 30, 2018 20:26 UTC