Hotel Giant Marriott Confirms Yet Another Data Breach

Hotel group Marriott International has confirmed another data breach, with hackers claiming to have stolen 20 gigabytes of sensitive data including guests' credit card information. From a report: The incident, first reported by Databreaches.net Tuesday, is said to have happened in June when an unnamed hacking group claimed they used social engineering to trick an employee at a Marriott hotel Maryland into giving them access to their computer. "Marriott International is aware of a threat actor who used social engineering to trick one associate at a single Marriott hotel into providing access to the associate's computer," Marriott spokesperson Melissa Froehlich Flood told TechCrunch in a statement. "The threat actor did not gain access to Marriott's core network."

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