Passport numbers stolen from Marriott provide scammers with another ID theft tool
Hackers who spent four years lurking inside the Starwood hotel chain’s guest database now have a valuable piece of the puzzle for stealing victims’ identities: passport numbers. Marriott announced Friday that the stolen information on 327 million people “includes some combination” of passports and other personal information, such as phone numbers, email addresses, or payment card data. A passport number alone may not be especially valuable, but fraudsters can incorporate that information into an identity theft scheme, making those attacks more likely to be successful. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Sunday called on Marriott to pay the fees to replace each U.S. customers’ passports stolen in the breach, which amounts to $110 per passport holder. Marriott did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday about why Starwood collected guests’ passport information. The breach also provides scammers with other detailed information they can combine to gather a detailed view […]
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