Following a colossal data breach that compromised sensitive personal information, including some passport numbers, of hundreds of millions of guests, Marriott International has agreed to pay for passport replacements if the company finds customers have been victims of fraud.
The breach, which took place over four years and affected 500 million guests, was unique not only for its scope but for the bevy of personal information hackers accessed through the reservation system of Marriott's subsidiary, Starwood: gender, birth dates, email and mailing addresses and phone numbers. The hackers also accessed passport numbers for a "smaller subset of customers," Marriott said.