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Marriott International said early Friday that data on roughly 500 million customers staying at Starwood hotel properties had been compromised in a breach that gave unknown attackers access to the Starwood network since 2014. The company said it has not finished identifying duplicate information in the database, but believes it contains information on up to approximately 500 million guests who made a reservation at a Starwood property. The hotel giant said that on September 8, 2018, it received an alert from an internal security tool regarding an attempt to access the Starwood guest reservation database. The company said it “quickly...

Marriott says its guest reservation system has been hacked, potentially exposing the personal information of approximately 500 million guests. The hotel chain said Friday the hack affects its Starwood reservation database, a group of hotels it bought in 2016 that includes the St. Regis, Westin, Sheraton and W Hotels. Marriott said hackers had gained "unauthorized access" to the Starwood reservation system since 2014, but the company only identified the issue last week. "The company recently discovered that an unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information, and took steps towards removing it," Marriott said in a statement. For 327 million people,...

Marriott International is all set to acquire Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in a $12.2 billion deal. The two companies announced that they have reached a definitive merger agreement that will result in the world's largest hotel company, boasting a whopping 1.1 million rooms in more than 5,500 properties around the globe.

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YOU can help stop eminent domain abuse. Scare off the brand-name companies that are reaping the rewards of stolen land. Just go to the below link and pledge to not stay at any Starwood Hotel (W, Sheraton, Four-Points, Westin, St. Regis, Luxury collection, Le Meridien) until they back out of the development at the intersection of Hollywood and Vine that involves stealing buildings using eminent domain... http://www.pledgebank.com/Starwood-Boycott

Planet Hollywood co-founder to buy Aladdin casino (Las Vegas-AP) -- A federal judge has selected a joint venture involving Planet Hollywood's co-founder and the Starwood hotel chain to buy the bankrupt Aladdin hotel-casino. The judge's decision ended an 18-month process that included a frenzy of last-minute negotiations between bidders and creditors today during a standing-room only purchasing hearing in U-S Bankruptcy Court. The Aladdin will be renamed the Planet Hollywood Hotel and Casino. The Planet Hollywood group intends to assume 510 (M) million dollars in debt and invest 90 (M) million dollars in the property over three years.

MAMMOTH LAKES – The Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, a longtime winter playground for Southern California residents, says it will sell a controlling interest to a private investment firm. The $365 million acquisition will be made by Starwood Capital Groups, led by luxury hotel mogul Barry S. Sternlicht. The move is expected to give the resort an upscale character, unlike the raw, unpolished style developed by founder and co-owner Dave McCoy. The deal will give Starwood 70 percent control and the right to operate 4,000 acres of ski terrain at Mammoth and June mountains and allow for some development. The land...

THE W hotel chain is aggres sively laying claim to the letter W, no matter what President Bush's nickname is. The group behind the chain, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., has fired off legal let ters to two political merchandisers, de manding they re move the letter W — as in George W. Bush — from "apparel and accessories" they are selling. The of fending items include baseball hats and T-shirts "that mimic the trade dress of the W hotels, which has the effect of eroding the unique brand identity developed in the W logo."

WASHINGTON – A major hotel chain that will not make top-rated Fox News Channel available to guests has a record of individual campaign contributions heavily favoring Democrats. Federal Election Commission records reviewed by NewsMax.com show that among those officials who list Starwood or a Starwood hotel property as their workplace favored Democrats by better than 3 to 1 over Republicans for the 1999-2000 election cycle. Starwood's hotels include Sheraton, Westin, St. Regis, Luxury Connection, Four Points and, ironically, W.