The list of 29 hotel cyber security breach

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1 Survey: Half of hotel execs say data breach is likely

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  • Author: hotelmanagement.net
  • Published: 07/22/2022
  • Review: 4.85 (758 vote)
  • Summary: of a data breach increases when employees work off-site—opening a proverbial door for hotels to promote cybersecurity as a key attraction as hotel rooms 
  • Source: https://www.hotelmanagement.net/tech/survey-half-hotel-execs-say-data-breach-likely

2 Marriott confirms another data breach after hotel got hacked

  • Author: bleepingcomputer.com
  • Published: 05/20/2022
  • Review: 4.72 (205 vote)
  • Summary: · Hotel giant Marriott International confirmed it was hit by another data breach after an unknown threat actor breached one of its properties 
  • Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/marriott-confirms-another-data-breach-after-hotel-got-hacked/

3 Marriott Plays Down 20GB Data Breach – Infosecurity Magazine

  • Author: infosecurity-magazine.com
  • Published: 11/05/2021
  • Review: 4.48 (574 vote)
  • Summary: · Personal information on over 330 million guests was exposed after an attack on Starwood Hotels which began in 2014 and which Marriott 
  • Source: https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/marriott-plays-down-20gb-data/

4 Another Hotel Chain Gets Hit: Hilton Reports Payment Card Breach

  • Author: trendmicro.com
  • Published: 12/25/2021
  • Review: 4.31 (378 vote)
  • Summary: Hilton Worldwide is the latest target of a security breach in the hospitality industry, as PoS malware was used to compromise payment card data over a 
  • Source: https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/de/security/news/cybercrime-and-digital-threats/another-hotel-chain-gets-hit-hilton-reports-payment-card-breach

5 Marriott Hotel Data Breaches and the Aftermath – IDStrong

  • Author: idstrong.com
  • Published: 04/16/2022
  • Review: 4.16 (207 vote)
  • Summary: The data breach of Marriott Hotels occurred in January 2020. The large Hotel chain did not discover the breach until February 2020. The latest is a second data 
  • Source: https://www.idstrong.com/sentinel/marriott-hotel-data-breaches-and-the-aftermath/

6 Marriott confirms latest data breach, possibly exposing information

  • Author: cyberscoop.com
  • Published: 10/22/2021
  • Review: 3.83 (533 vote)
  • Summary: · The international hotel chain says criminal hackers tricked an … for the attack told Databreaches.net — a news site that focuses on data 
  • Source: https://www.cyberscoop.com/marriott-data-breach-baltimore/

7 Hotel data breach | Improve the security of your hotel | Mews Blog

  • Author: mews.com
  • Published: 01/19/2022
  • Review: 3.62 (306 vote)
  • Summary: Types of hotel security data breaches and how to protect your property · Malware and memory scaping · Denial-of-service attack · Eavesdropping attacks · Spam or 
  • Source: https://www.mews.com/en/blog/hotel-data-breaches

8 Hackers Target Hotels, Exploit Weak Safeguards | PYMNTS.com

  • Author: pymnts.com
  • Published: 02/03/2022
  • Review: 3.55 (216 vote)
  • Summary: · While the Marriott-Starwood data breach of 2018 still dominates news of hotel cybersecurity, that was a pre-pandemic event. The addition of 
  • Source: https://www.pymnts.com/cybersecurity/2022/hackers-target-hotels-exploit-weak-covid-19-contact-tracing-safeguards/

9 Disaster Recovery After a Hotel Data Breach | Verizon Business

  • Author: verizon.com
  • Published: 03/16/2022
  • Review: 3.2 (456 vote)
  • Summary: Hotels face unique cyber security risks. Learn what they can do to identify a hotel cyber security issue and move into disaster recovery mode
  • Source: https://www.verizon.com/business/resources/articles/s/disaster-recovery-after-a-hotel-data-breach/

10 Marriott data breach FAQ: How did it happen and what was the

  • Author: csoonline.com
  • Published: 01/20/2022
  • Review: 3.14 (224 vote)
  • Summary: What would the motivation for the attack be, then? … is the top hotel provider for the U.S. government and military
  • Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3441220/marriott-data-breach-faq-how-did-it-happen-and-what-was-the-impact.html

11 Marriott International discloses its second security incident affecting

  • Author: bitdefender.com
  • Published: 05/08/2022
  • Review: 2.89 (66 vote)
  • Summary: A security breach has exposed the personal information of more than 5 million guests that found comfort at the Marriott Bonvoy Hotel, according to an 
  • Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/marriott-international-discloses-its-second-security-incident-affecting-5-2-million-guests

12 The Top Five Cyber Threats Hotel Brands and Franchisees Need to

  • Author: netsurion.com
  • Published: 02/22/2022
  • Review: 2.71 (95 vote)
  • Summary: 1. Ransomware: · 2. Remote hacking through third-party vendors: · 3. Phishing scam targeting customers and hotels: · 4. DDoS attacks on the hotel network: · 5
  • Source: https://www.netsurion.com/articles/the-top-five-cyberthreats-for-hotels

13 Hotel giant Marriott confirms yet another data breach – TechCrunch

  • Author: techcrunch.com
  • Published: 07/08/2022
  • Review: 2.71 (115 vote)
  • Summary: · Hotel group Marriott International has confirmed another data breach, with hackers claiming to have stolen 20 gigabytes of sensitive data, 
  • Source: https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/06/marriott-breach-again/

14 Cybersecurity at Hotels: 6 Threats For Hotels to Manage

  • Author: socialtables.com
  • Published: 03/31/2022
  • Review: 2.65 (182 vote)
  • Summary: As a hotelier, you are at high risk from cybersecurity failings that allow this type of attack to occur. Hotels that have fallen foul to this crime have in the 
  • Source: https://www.socialtables.com/blog/hospitality/cyber-security-hotels/

15 Hotel data breaches: What independent hoteliers need to know

  • Author: siteminder.com
  • Published: 02/17/2022
  • Review: 2.5 (147 vote)
  • Summary: IHG data breach … Front desk cash registers at more than 1,200 hotels in the InterContinental Hotels Group, which 
  • Source: https://www.siteminder.com/r/hotel-data-breaches/

16 Marriott Data Breach FAQ: What Really Happened?

  • Author: hoteltechreport.com
  • Published: 03/20/2022
  • Review: 2.35 (68 vote)
  • Summary: · Crowdstrike cybersecurity expert Ryan Cornateanu told Hotel Tech Report, “The attack on Marriott was hapless and a popular entry point for 
  • Source: https://hoteltechreport.com/news/marriott-data-breach

17 The Marriott hotel chain has been hit by another data breach

  • Author: theverge.com
  • Published: 07/14/2022
  • Review: 2.24 (102 vote)
  • Summary: · The Marriott International hotel chain confirmed that it has been hit by a data breach that exposed customer information including credit 
  • Source: https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/6/23196805/marriott-hotels-maryland-data-breach-credit-cards

18 Timeline: The Growing Number of Hotel Data Breaches – CoStar

  • Author: costar.com
  • Published: 04/18/2022
  • Review: 2.16 (199 vote)
  • Summary: What happened: The personal data of approximately 700,000 guests of Choice Hotels International was exposed to hackers over an unsecured database, which was 
  • Source: https://www.costar.com/article/139958097/timeline-the-growing-number-of-hotel-data-breaches

19 Marriott Hotels admits to third data breach in 4 years – The Register

  • Author: theregister.com
  • Published: 01/23/2022
  • Review: 2.16 (155 vote)
  • Summary: · This data breach is only the latest attack on a Marriott-owned hotel. Most recently, attackers made off with 5.2 million guest records in 
  • Source: https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/06/marriott_hotels_suffer_yet_another/

20 Latest Marriott breach shows a human error pattern

  • Author: cybersecuritydive.com
  • Published: 06/05/2022
  • Review: 2.03 (192 vote)
  • Summary: · Marriott International last month suffered its third publicly acknowledged data breach in four years. The hotel chain disclosed the incident 
  • Source: https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/marriott-breach-human-error-pattern/626751/

21 How to secure hotel business communications against data breaches?

  • Author: hospitalitynet.org
  • Published: 10/02/2021
  • Review: 1.91 (184 vote)
  • Summary: · As travel and hotel booking moved almost entirely online, it became increasingly important to stay vigilant for cyber security attacks
  • Source: https://www.hospitalitynet.org/opinion/4109856.html

22 Cybersecurity and Data Breach Threats in Hospitality: How to Fix

  • Author: acropolium.com
  • Published: 12/14/2021
  • Review: 1.73 (198 vote)
  • Summary: The criminal calls the hotel to act as a dissatisfied ransomware customer. The “customer” offers to share more details 
  • Source: https://acropolium.com/blog/cybersecurity-and-data-breach-threats-in-hospitality-how-to-fix/

23 4 CYBERSECURITY TIPS TO HELP AFTER THE MARRIOTT DATA

  • Author: orendasecurity.com
  • Published: 09/13/2021
  • Review: 1.62 (52 vote)
  • Summary: It has been deemed by CNN to be “the second biggest corporate data breach in history.” The Starwood hotels that have been affected include:
  • Source: https://orendasecurity.com/blog/4-cybersecurity-tips-to-help-after-the-marriott-data-breach/

24 10.6 million MGM Resorts guests had personal info exposed in breach

  • Author: us.norton.com
  • Published: 06/16/2022
  • Review: 1.58 (199 vote)
  • Summary: MGM Resorts confirms the security incident occurred and says affected hotel guests were notified soon after the breach. Who was impacted? The MGM data breach 
  • Source: https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-emerging-threats-mgm-data-breach.html

25 Hotel Cyberattack: Hackers got access to the hotel | Secure Stay

  • Author: secure-stay.com
  • Published: 11/13/2021
  • Review: 1.54 (71 vote)
  • Summary: After involving outside cybersecurity – SecureStay, we were able to determine that the first hacker attack took place two years ago. The unauthorized party had 
  • Source: https://secure-stay.com/a-hotel-is-under-cyber-attack/

26 Marriott Hotels fined £18.4m for data breach that hit millions – BBC

  • Author: bbc.com
  • Published: 12/11/2021
  • Review: 1.34 (194 vote)
  • Summary: · Up to 339 million people may have been hit in a cyber-attack on a chain later bought by Marriott
  • Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54748843

27 Marriott Data Breach 2020: 5.2 Million Guest Records Were Stolen

  • Author: loginradius.com
  • Published: 05/29/2022
  • Review: 1.23 (119 vote)
  • Summary: Marriott says it discovered in late February that the network of an unspecified hotel chain had been hacked, and hackers who obtained the login credentials 
  • Source: https://www.loginradius.com/blog/identity/marriott-data-breach-2020/

28 Inside a Ransomware Hit at Nordic Choice Hotels – WSJ

  • Author: wsj.com
  • Published: 10/11/2021
  • Review: 1.27 (72 vote)
  • Summary: · Hotel staff escorted guests to their rooms when digital keycards stopped … operating system to get back online after a ransomware attack
  • Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-a-ransomware-hit-at-nordic-choice-hotels-11641983406

29 For the second time this year, Marriott has suffered a data breach

  • Author: siliconangle.com
  • Published: 01/13/2022
  • Review: 1.02 (149 vote)
  • Summary: · The attack vector involved the hackers tricking a Marriott … The hotel chain is informing about 300 to 400 individuals who may have been 
  • Source: https://siliconangle.com/2022/07/05/second-time-year-marriott-suffered-data-breach/