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Up to 500 million guests of the hotel chain Marriott may have had their data stolen in a security breach, the company announced on Friday. For some 327 million of those guests, the stolen information includes “some combination of name, mailing address, phone number, email address, passport number, Starwood Preferred Guest (“SPG”) account information, date of birth, gender, arrival and departure information, reservation date, and communication preferences,” according to the chain. The data breach, which involved a reservation database at Marriott’s Starwood unit, is unprecedented in size and scale. Here’s what to do if you are worried your information has been compromised. I’m a Marriott customer.