Tag: Marriott
New data reveals firms which received GDPR fines during lockdown
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that Ticketmaster, British Airways and Marriott were among businesses in the UK which were fined for breaching GDPR regulations between March 2020 and January 2021. Data obtained through the Freedom of Information (FOI) request by confidential shredding and records management company, Go Shred, show that only four penalty notices…
Hotel firm Marriott fined £99 million for customer data breach
Hotel chain Marriott is facing a fine of £99 million over a data breach which is estimated to have affected around 339 million customers. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fine relates to a data breach at the company believed to have originated in the systems of the Starwood hotels group in 2014. Marriott acquired Starwood…
All the major data breaches of 2018 – including Google+, Marriot, Ticketmaster
Retailers, airlines and hotels were among 2018's victims of data breaches. Jamie Harris, Press Association's Science Technology Reporter, reports on a year where millions of people had their information stolen by hackers..... Data breaches continued to be a major issue for the public in 2018 with a number of serious cases ranging from retailers to…
