The Marriott hotel chain has fallen victim to hackers who broke into the company’s internal network, which resulted in a customer data leak. The data leak affects 52 million customers. Hackers also managed to obtain logins and passwords belonging to two Marriott employees.

As reported by Marriott International, leaked data includes:
-    Customer contact details such as personal data, email address and phone number, employment status, gender, date of birth,
-    Information about participation in the loyalty program,
-    Data related to hotel room reservation like length of stay, type of room.

At present, there is no confirmation whether the leak also included data related to customer’s credit card details, passports, ID cards or driving license numbers.

A website has been launched on which the information about the above attack can be found, and customers whose data has fallen victim to hackers have been informed by email.