Back in November, Marriott International revealed hundreds of millions of customers who had stayed at some of their hotels had their personal information stolen due to a hack. Chinese hackers are believed to be behind it. And today Marriott offered some good and bad news on the hack. The good news: Fewer people than initially thought were affected. The bad news: More than 5 million people had their passport information accessed. The World’s Marco Werman interviews Priscilla Moriuchi, a former National Security Agency official who now works with the cyber threat analysis company Recorded Future.
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