Hotel Guests Information – level 2

08-04-2020 07:00

The Marriott hotel chain said that somebody hacked one of its systems. The system contained information about customers’ names, addresses and phone numbers.

There were also details about special services for loyal customers and airline information. Luckily, the system did not contain information about credit cards and passwords.

Marriott said that the hack could affect about 5.2 million guests, and the company is now sending emails to them. It is possible that the hack started in January; however, Marriott learned about it almost one month later.

In 2018, hackers got into Marriott’s reservations database which contained personal information of almost 500 million guests.

Difficult words: hack (to get into a computer or system illegally), hacker (the person who illegally gets to private computers), database (a lot of information that is stored in a computer).

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