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Marriott hack linked to Chinese spying efforts

By Katelyn Caralle
Published December 12, 2018 2:47am ET
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Marriott hack linked to Chinese spying efforts
Chinese and American flags fly outside of a JW Marriott hotel in Beijing. The Marriot hotel chain apologized Thursday to China's government for referring to Tibet and self-ruled Taiwan as countries in a customer survey that news reports said Chinese police investigated as a possible crime. | (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

A hack that collected the information of 500 million Marriott hotel guests is now thought to be part of Chinese intelligence-gathering.

Two people briefed on the preliminary investigation told the New York Times that the Chinese efforts also hacked health insurers, other hotels, and gathered security clearance files of millions more Americans.

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