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Old Nov 30, 2018 | 6:37 pm
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Originally Posted by Dave510
I guess if you buy Marriott's party line wholesale, then you'll believe it's all SPG's fault, despite reservation information up to Sept, 2018 being leaked. It's easy to scapegoat SPG now.
If it started in 2014 I can easily blame SPG. I am by no means a fan of Marriott but assuming it wasn't a super obvious exploit and some SQL9 database on a Win 2000 server; it is unlikely to surface in any due diligence. There are many many many things I can blame Marriott for - this isn't one of them. And honestly - without knowing what the exploit was - I am not blaming SPG yet either. Sometimes things happen that shouldn't. I have had some (granted minor - but it's a much smaller business) data breaches happen while CEO and ultimately responsible; I am well above average technical - but no number of policies and training will catch every last thing that can go wrong
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