{"id":85568,"date":"2018-12-07T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/china-emerges-as-lead-suspect-in-marriott-data-hack"},"modified":"2018-12-07T07:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T15:02:40","slug":"china-emerges-as-lead-suspect-in-marriott-data-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/china-emerges-as-lead-suspect-in-marriott-data-hack","title":{"rendered":"China emerges as lead suspect in Marriott data hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-emerges-as-lead-suspect-in-marriott-data-hack.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not cool, China.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>(<em>Reuters<\/em>) \u2014 Hackers behind a massive breach at hotel group Marriott International left clues suggesting they were working for a Chinese government intelligence gathering operation, according to sources familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Marriott said last week that a <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/11\/30\/marriott-says-up-to-500-million-starwood-hotels-customers-affected-by-hack\/\">hack that began four years ago had exposed the records of up to 500 million customers<\/a> in its Starwood hotels reservation system.<\/p>\n<p>Private investigators looking into the breach have found hacking tools, techniques and procedures previously used in attacks attributed to Chinese hackers, said three sources who were not authorized to discuss the company\u2019s private probe into the attack.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/12\/06\/china-emerges-as-lead-suspect-in-marriott-data-hack\/\">https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/12\/06\/china-emerges-as-lead-sus...data-hack\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not cool, China. (Reuters) \u2014 Hackers behind a massive breach at hotel group Marriott International left clues suggesting they were working for a Chinese government intelligence gathering operation, according to sources familiar with the matter. Marriott said last week that a hack that began four years ago had exposed the records of up to 500 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}