Atlanta’s financial technology companies are watching closely after one of the world’s largest hotel chains, Marriott International, disclosed that the personal information of 500 million guests of its Starwood hotel properties may have been breached.
The information included names, birthdays, passport numbers, addresses and encrypted credit card numbers.
Marriott International said there had been unauthorized access to the Starwood network since 2014.
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