A recent ZDnet exclusive revealed that personal information of 10.6 million guests who stayed at MGM Resorts hotels was stolen by hackers last summer and posted on a hacking forum last week.
The 10,683,188 records included full names, home addresses, phone numbers, emails, and dates of birth. The list of customers whose data were stolen includes tech CEOs and celebrities, such as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and pop star Justin Bieber.
In a statement made by MGM: “We are confident that no financial, payment card or password data was involved in this matter.” None of the guests stayed at the hotel past 2017.
In November 2018, the Marriott hotel chain announced that data of 500 million hotel guests was hacked in 2014.
The Marriott incident is the biggest data breach for the hospitality industry.
Read more about it here.