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Marriott discloses data breach affecting 5.2 million guests

https://www.cyberscoop.com/marriott-data-breach-2020/

Marriott International on Tuesday revealed a data breach affecting an estimated 5.2 million hotel guests, the second significant security incident to hit the hospitality giant in the last 16 months.

The breach exposed guests’ personal information such as names, addresses, employer, and loyalty account numbers, the company said in a statement. The login credentials of two Marriott employees were used to access guest information in activity that began in mid-January, the statement said.

Marriott said it detected the compromise at the end of February and confirmed the credentials had been disabled.

“[W]e currently have no reason to believe that the information involved included Marriott Bonvoy account passwords or PINs, payment card information, passport information, national IDs, or driver’s license numbers,” Marriott said. An investigation is ongoing.

Hotel chains are a natural target for both criminals looking to sell guests’ personal information and spies looking to track government officials.

In November 2018, Marriott announced a bigger breach of its Starwood Hotels database that affected hundreds of millions of guests. U.S. officials have accused Chinese hackers of carrying out that breach, an allegation Beijing denies.
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https://www.wavesys.com/products/wave-virtual-smart-card

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Cyber-threats are everywhere, but with Wave Virtual Smart Card 2.0 (Wave VSC 2.0) enterprises have a hardware-based, tokenless, two-factor authentication security solution with the security of a hardware token solution and the convenience and cost savings of a software token solution.

Wave VSC 2.0 delivers strong two-factor authentication using the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), the embedded security chip built into enterprise PCs. Wave empowers IT with management of the TPM and VSC 2.0. Companies successfully use Wave VSC 2.0 to secure VPN access, web applications and other certificate-based applications, like Wi-Fi with 802.1x, remote desktop, or Windows-user login. Use the security that’s already been deployed and save money with Wave VSC 2.0.

Every month we see headlines highlighting mammoth breaches (i.e. EBay, JP Morgan Chase, Sony, Target, etc…). In each case, millions of records were stolen, corporate images were tarnished, and enormous costs were incurred as a result. And equally disturbing, more often than not the attacks go undetected and as a result important information is stolen.
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https://www.wavesys.com/data-protection

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https://www.wavesys.com/products/embassy%C2%AE-remote-administration-server-tpm-management

Excerpts:

Wave’s ERAS for TPM Management gives IT remote, centralized management of all TPMs on enterprise computers and tablets.

With this control, IT can set policies and dictate which machines and users have authority to access which resources. IT can ensure that only known and approved devices are accessing your network. And what’s more, IT can prove it with detailed activity logs.