FTC proposes settlement with hotel chain over data breaches affecting 334M
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission published a proposed settlement order to resolve charges Marriott International and subsidiary Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide failed to implement "reasonable" data security practices that resulted in three major data breaches from 2014-20 that affected more than 334 million customers worldwide. Under the proposed order, the hotel chains agreed to implement stronger data security practices.