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Marriott agrees to pay $52 million settlement after multiple data breaches


The company also has to restore customers’ stolen loyalty points.

As part of a separate agreement, the Federal Trade Commission is also requiring Marriott and its subsidiary, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, to implement an information security program to settle charges over the data breaches. “Marriott’s poor security practices led to multiple breaches affecting hundreds of millions of customers,” Samuel Levine, the director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, said in a statement. As part of the settlement, Marriott has agreed to give all US customers a way to request that any personal information associated with their email addresses or loyalty rewards account numbers be deleted.

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