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        <title><![CDATA[Another Marriott data breach exposes info of 5.2 million guests]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Marriott is probing its second major data breach in just over a year &#8212; one that may have exposed personal information for millions of hotel guests, the company said.</p><p><span >The breach — the third Marriott has reported in less than two years — potentially exposed the names, addresses, birth dates, loyalty account details and other information for as many as 5.2 million guests, the Maryland-based conglomerate said Tuesday. </span></p><p><span >The company is still investigating the incident, but said it does not believe any payment card information, driver&#8217;s license numbers or Marriott Bonvoy benefit account passwords were exposed.</span></p><p>Marriott said it discovered in late February that an &#8220;unexpected amount&#8221; of guest information was accessed on a company system using the login credentials of two employees at a franchise hotel. The breach likely started in mid-January, the company said.</p><p>Marriott disabled the problematic login credentials upon learning of the breach and has notified the relevant authorities, according to a news release.</p><p>&#8220;The company does not currently believe that its total costs related to this incident will be significant,&#8221; Marriott said.</p><p>The breach came a little more than a year after Marriott revealed that hackers had stolen the personal information of up to <strong>500 million Starwood Hotels guests</strong>. The company discovered that breach affecting brands including St. Regis and W Hotels in September 2018 and subsequently learned that the Starwood systems had been hacked since 2014.</p><p>Marriott also revealed in October 2019 that a hacker had accessed information about company staffers, including their names, addresses and Social Security numbers.</p><p>Marriott&#8217;s stock price was down 5.5 percent at $70.69 as of 11:47 a.m. Wednesday.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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