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Marriott Moves to Dismiss Data Breach Lawsuit, Says Passport Numbers Useless to Hackers
Marriott is insisting that last year's cyberattack did no harm to its hotel guests, not least of which because hackers cannot use stolen passport numbers.
In a motion filed on September 23, Marriott International Inc. sought to dismiss a consolidated consumer class action brought over the data breach, which compromised the personal information of 383 million guests of its Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide properties. Parroting the argument of other defendants in data breach cases, Marriott insisted that none of the named plaintiffs in the case suffered harm, which is required to establish standing to sue in federal court.
But, in a more unusual move, the hotel chain, which admitted that hackers stole passport numbers, attached a declaration from Brenda Sprague, who held the "highest-ranking position in the U.S. government with responsibility for passports" at the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs. In that declaration, she said that hackers need more than a passport number to create a forged passport.
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