Marriott's CEO reveals new details about the mega breach
New details have emerged about the attack on Marriott last year, following a testimony by the Group’s CEO Arne Sorenson.
According to Sorenson’s latest statement, 383 million guest records and 18.5 million encrypted passport numbers were breached. Details included 9.1 million encrypted payment card numbers and 385,000 valid card numbers in addition to 5.25 million unencrypted passport numbers. He denied that China was to blame for the hack.
On September 10, Marriott called on third-party investigators to look into whether it had been breached. Soon afterwards, malware on the Starwood IT systems was found: A Remote Access Trojan , which allows hackers to covertly access, surveil and gain control over a computer. It was in November that Marriott realized hackers had been in the system since July 2014. And later that month, the firm found that customer data had indeed been breached. Sorenson descried how, on November 13, investigators discovered evidence that two compressed, encrypted files had been deleted from a device.
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