[Eye Opener] Lessons Learned from a Big Hotel’s Recent Data Breach Caused By Social Engineering

This week Marriott International, one of the largest hotel chains, suffered their second data breach of 2022. The attack by a group named ‘Group with No Name’ (GNN) took place in early June and they used social engineering to trick one of the hotel employees into granting access to that associate’s computer.

Luckily the data breach only affected a few hundred users, but there are some valuable lessons to be shared on how important it is to implement new-school security awareness training across your whole organization.