Publish date | 09 July 2019 |
Issue Number | 668 |
Diary | Legalbrief Forensic |
Marriott faces a $124m fine for failing to protect customer data, the second major penalty proposed this week by UK regulators under Europe's tough new privacy rules. The hotel chain said in a regulatory filing that Britain's Information Commissioner's Office intended to impose the penalty under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). CNN reports that the regulator said the penalty stemmed from a Marriott data breach that exposed 339m guest records globally, including 30m Europeans. The group said the hack began in 2014, but was only discovered in November 2018, shortly before it reported the breach. It's the second major fine proposed by the regulator this week. On Monday, the ICO said British Airways faced a $230m fine after a breach compromised data on 500 000 customers.