The last breach was November of of 2018 . They have had a year and a half to fix their abysmal security practices. Instead they choose to focus their efforts in that time on a ridiculous branding juggernaut("Bonvoy".) Seriously fuck this company. I hope people vote with their wallet.
Marriott says 5.2M guests exposed in new data breach
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#12> contact details, loyalty account information and additional personal details such as gender and birthdays I'm always wondering why a random service would need a date of birth (apart from validating "the person is an adult"). Some of them give you a special promo for your birthday, but I guess I can live without that. Except banking & government services, I typically provide a fake one if required, because, WTF?
I've never given my birthday or gender to a hotel, so my best guess is that they just have this info for some people but not most (rewards programs, perhaps?). It's possible they write it down when I give them my ID, but it seems like a lot of work for very little payoff.
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#13> contact details, loyalty account information and additional personal details such as gender and birthdays I'm always wondering why a random service would need a date of birth (apart from validating "the person is an adult"). Some of them give you a special promo for your birthday, but I guess I can live without that. Except banking & government services, I typically provide a fake one if required, because, WTF?
Gather as much as you can is their idea. It costs you nothing, but it may be valuable one day.
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#14I imagine this will probably be mostly duplicate data from last years data breach. What a continual mess.
It's not because I signed upto Bonvoy in January this year and just got an email. Anyone putting together a class action?
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#15What protections/power do consumers have when their personal information is exposed like this?
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#16The last breach was November of of 2018 . They have had a year and a half to fix their abysmal security practices. Instead they choose to focus their efforts in that time on a ridiculous branding juggernaut("Bonvoy".) Seriously fuck this company. I hope people vote with their wallet.
Every Marriott I have ever been in was chosen for me, because of their business-friendly group booking system. There's an agent-principle problem with hotels that rely on corporate group rate and conference customers.
I went to the fedex store in a Marriott a couple of blocks from here to drop off a pre-paid parcel, and they wanted a $20 "convenience" fee to leave it on the desk. Maybe Marriott doesn't need to care about guest infosec because guests are the product, not the customer.
I mean, no one pays $27 of their _own_ money for a continental breakfast...
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#17How does one verify that the reported details exposed in the breach are the actual details? If that's impossible or really hard to do, wouldn't Marriott deny culpability given the pervasiveness of identity/CC fraud?
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#18This is the new norm. These hacks are not going to stop until these companies are actually punished for these breaches. One of the many things that are contributing to loss of faith in our system.
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#19> contact details, loyalty account information and additional personal details such as gender and birthdays I'm always wondering why a random service would need a date of birth (apart from validating "the person is an adult"). Some of them give you a special promo for your birthday, but I guess I can live without that. Except banking & government services, I typically provide a fake one if required, because, WTF?
I've never given my birthday or gender to a hotel, so my best guess is that they just have this info for some people but not most (rewards programs, perhaps?). It's possible they write it down when I give them my ID, but it seems like a lot of work for very little payoff.
Seems like having a birthday (and therefore age) for everyone checking into a hotel could be valuable for business intelligence and other analytics.
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#20The last breach was November of of 2018 . They have had a year and a half to fix their abysmal security practices. Instead they choose to focus their efforts in that time on a ridiculous branding juggernaut("Bonvoy".) Seriously fuck this company. I hope people vote with their wallet.
Every Marriott I have ever been in was chosen for me, because of their business-friendly group booking system. There's an agent-principle problem with hotels that rely on corporate group rate and conference customers. I went to the fedex store in a Marriott a couple of blocks from here to drop off a pre-paid parcel, and they wanted a $20 "convenience" fee to leave it on the desk. Maybe Marriott doesn't need to care a…
Wow, never heard of paying to drop off a package. Is that common? I thought the shipping fees or postage if gov post office is what’s suppose to pay for that.