{"id":62825,"date":"2018-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2018\/11\/30\/marriott-data-breach-what-to-do\/"},"modified":"2021-02-09T02:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T02:10:20","slug":"marriott-data-breach-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/firefox\/marriott-data-breach-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriott data breach &#8212; What to do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning when I drove back from the gym, I heard news about the Marriott data breach on the radio. I thought back to all the times I\u2019ve stayed in a Marriott hotel (I\u2019m checking into one next week) and wondered what data of mine may have been compromised. With \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/news.marriott.com\/p\/marriott-international-brand-fact-sheets-2\/\">more than 6,700 hotels and over million rooms in over 130 countries across the globe<\/a>,\u201d maybe you\u2019re also wondering if you\u2019re one of the potentially <i>half a billion<\/i> guests whose data was compromised. It\u2019s unpleasant to consider. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.marriott.com\/2018\/11\/marriott-announces-starwood-guest-reservation-database-security-incident\/\">press release<\/a>, the Marriott data breach involved the Starwood guest reservation database and included:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i>\u201c&#8230; some combination of name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, Starwood Preferred Guest (\u201cSPG\u201d) account information, date of birth, gender, arrival and departure information, reservation date, and communication preferences.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The breach also included some credit card numbers and their expiration dates. Marriott says this data was encrypted, but that it\u2019s still possible that it may have been decrypted by hackers later.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need to wait to hear from Marriott to find out if you\u2019ve been in the breach. If you\u2019ve stayed at one of their hotels since 2014, it\u2019s not a bad idea to be cautious. Here\u2019s what you can do straight away:<\/p>\n<h2>Monitor your accounts.<\/h2>\n<p>Watch your credit cards and your credit accounts for suspicious activity and report it quickly if spotted.<\/p>\n<h2>Change your password.<\/h2>\n<p>If the password to your Starwood account is one that you\u2019ve reused, change it. You should always use different passwords for every account.<\/p>\n<h2>Use strong passwords.<\/h2>\n<p><i>hotel123<\/i> is a weak password, and yet according to haveibeenpwned, it has appeared 1,817 times in previous data breaches \u2014 and Marriott\u2019s dataset isn\u2019t even in the database yet.<\/p>\n<h2>Be alert to phishing attempts.<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cPhishing\u201d is a broad term for when a malicious actor impersonates a legitimate one in order to trick you into giving up sensitive information such as passwords, account details or credit card numbers. It generally casts a wide net. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/internetcitizen\/2017\/08\/01\/spear-phishing\/\">Be on your guard, because it\u2019s clever and it works.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Get alerts for future breaches from <a href=\"https:\/\/monitor.firefox.com\/\">Firefox Monitor<\/a>.<\/h2>\n<p>Firefox Monitor will warn you if your credentials have been compromised by comparing it to the public breach data in the system. After that, you\u2019ll have the option to sign up for future alerts. Not all breach datasets are available for us to scan through Firefox Monitor, and that includes the Marriott data breach as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you weren\u2019t part of the Marriott data breach, but the fact is, breaches are on the rise. These tips don\u2019t apply just to this breach, they\u2019re best practices every day of the week. Getting smart about your online security and privacy is more important the ever, and it\u2019s something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/fights-for-you\/\">we care a great deal about at Firefox<\/a>. Our products \u2014 like <a href=\"https:\/\/monitor.firefox.com\/\">Firefox Monitor<\/a> \u2014 keep what\u2019s personal private, and they are designed to serve you, not a bottom line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning when I drove back from the gym, I heard news about the Marriott data breach on the radio. I thought back to all the times I\u2019ve stayed in a Marriott hotel (I\u2019m checking into one next week) and wondered what data of mine may have been compromised. With \u201cmore than 6,700 hotels and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":727,"featured_media":21128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,289374],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Marriott data breach: Here&#039;s what you can do | Firefox Monitor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You don\u2019t need to wait to hear if you\u2019ve been caught up in the Marriott data breach. 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