usatoday.com — Over 200,000 employees, time share owners and customers. Included in the data were every identity thief's dream starter kit: names, social security numbers, bank account numbers and credit card numbers. To apologize, Marriott has agreed to spend the $100 or whatever to give everyone impacted a free credit monitoring service.
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locojonesDec 29, 2005
How many times does this have to happen before we can get some privacy laws protecting the consumer?Storing that information in unencrypted form, or sending it in any manner in which it leaves company hands should be criminal. Only when the heads of these companies can be made personally liable for their lax security procedures will they begin to take consumer privacy seriously.
imtigger2Dec 29, 2005
I'm stoked with my Disney timeshare (DVC). I was paying $1200 a year for a once a year visit to WDW for hotel, a 'standard' hotel room where you could see the bathroom sink from the bed, etc. Now, for that same $1200 a year, I get a $400 per night condo for two weeks, on Disney property, with jacuzzi tub, 3 rooms, full kitchen, grand living room and private laundry room. Not only that, the hotel I used to stay at has rates that go UP every year, and my rates are locked in for the next 40 years. I'd say that if you vacation every year, you're an idiot to not at least consider a timeshare.
kilmerDec 29, 2005
mmasnick he should have come up with his own headline if that is the case, but I don't want to go through one site to just go to another site and then get to another site that is actually holding the information I really want. Stop crying and copyright your headline and description next time.@ yttrx - Do you work for Marriot? This is more than just a brush off your shoulder issue.
reddog_x2000Dec 29, 2005
@ Web Weasel. I doubt that'll work very well. Politicians will express a lot of outrage & pass a weak bill providing for nominal fines. What might work better is a class action lawsuit. Now, I know, only the lawyers make out in these cases. But, consumers may benefit indirectly because companies don't want to have to kick out big bux to ANYONE. So, they may actually start taking data protection seriously.
pizpumpDec 31, 2005
"Over the past year, a series of personal data breaches affected high-profile companies including Citigroup, Bank of America and DSW Shoe Warehouse."One of these is not like the others...