This is in addition to the 500 million customer breach in September, 2018.
https://sensorstechforum.com/500-million-customers-marriott-...
Marriott says 5.2M guests exposed in new data breach
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Re: Marriott says 5.2M guests exposed in new data breach
#72I wonder how many more instances of "taking out the trash" we are going to see as this pandemic continues. Suddenly it's like everyday is Friday...
Re: Marriott says 5.2M guests exposed in new data breach
#73Marriot is an outsourced shop (TCS, Cognizant et. al). They are an empty shell run by “managers”.
Shocking that outsourced IT can't secure customer data. In my own experience with outsourced IT (specifically outsourced to India) it was extremely worrying that the people managing an IT infrastructure had no idea about very basic IT and had to ask the same questions over and over. I do not trust Accenture. Fuck them.
The paycheques of staff at these firms come from following process. The big perk they offer competent employees is to get a US or EU work visa and be deputed on-site (that is easily a 10X salary hike for people with less than 10 years of experience), and that perk is how they keep salaries low.
You could get more competent people, but they are less likely to follow process (which violates contract terms), and would cost more.
Edit: Also, if you work in one of the big service firms for a US client, you will have to do your day job, and then return to the office later at night to have meetings on US time.
Re: Marriott says 5.2M guests exposed in new data breach
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Name + DOB to disambiguate are the lookup keys they pass to data brokers to identify you, given a government ID (required to check in to a hotel). It gives them access to things like address history, email address history (for crosslinking of account records), credit rating, marketing channel tags, et c. Same goes for the phone number that some website registrations demand. It's not to call you, it's to lookup your n…
Huh, I chose a random date from the year before I was born and use it whenever sites ask for my birthday. I’ve never had one come back and say that isn’t really my birthday.
And for Dairy Queen, I gave them a date in the summer. Getting coupons in the middle of winter isn't too useful!