{"id":8305,"date":"2018-12-01T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=8305"},"modified":"2018-12-01T22:40:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T11:40:43","slug":"marriott-hotel-hack-exposes-the-user-data-of-500m-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/marriott-hotel-hack-exposes-the-user-data-of-500m-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriott hotel hack exposes the user data of 500m guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/27125044\/Security-Marriott-618554254-w-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;hotel behemoth Marriott announced a massive hack that impacts as many as 500 million customers who made a reservation at a Starwood [Sheraton, Westin, Aloft &amp; W Hotel] hotel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The equal 3rd largest hack of all time behind both of Yahoo&#8217;s mega-breaches in 2014 (500m) and 2013 (3000m).<\/p>\n<p>Information including guest&#8217;s names, addresses, date of birth, passport details, all stolen for anyone that stayed in a Starwood group (and potentially Marriott) hotel up until September 10th, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Credit card numbers have also been stolen however Marriott believes hackers don&#8217;t have the required keys to decrypt them.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/marriott-hack-protect-yourself\/\">The Marriott Hack: How to Protect Yourself | WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8230;hotel behemoth Marriott announced a massive hack that impacts as many as 500 million customers who made a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8305"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8311,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8305\/revisions\/8311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}