Has http://privilege.starwoodhotels.com/ been hi-jacked ?
May 5, 2014, 6:05 am
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Has http://privilege.starwoodhotels.com/ been hi-jacked ?
Maybe I am drunk or dyslexic... Or both
but it really appears to me right now as though http://privilege.starwoodhotels.com/ has been DNS hi-jacked and is redirecting traffic to some educational site ?!
but it really appears to me right now as though http://privilege.starwoodhotels.com/ has been DNS hi-jacked and is redirecting traffic to some educational site ?!
May 5, 2014, 6:14 am
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Maybe I am drunk or dyslexic... Or both
but it really appears to me right now as though http://privilege.starwoodhotels.com/ has been DNS hi-jacked and is redirecting traffic to some educational site ?!
but it really appears to me right now as though http://privilege.starwoodhotels.com/ has been DNS hi-jacked and is redirecting traffic to some educational site ?!
May 5, 2014, 7:10 am
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Ouch. This would mean someone has control of the starwoodhotels DNS. I would be careful what is done today with starwoods online.
Lurkers please follow up on this.
Lurkers please follow up on this.
May 5, 2014, 7:25 am
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Woah... good catch 
May 5, 2014, 7:54 am
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Then again... Would someone like Starwood rely on a third party to provide their web servers and manage their IP block? And would that third party be small enough to also have small-fry clients like an English school on the books? Very dubious.
May 5, 2014, 9:49 am
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Good catch!
May 5, 2014, 10:11 am
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Remember that Starwood seems to have offices and a call center in Singapore. Thus it's not surprising that some servers would be there. However, it seems strange to me that an English school would have a similar name or website address. I wonder if some web programmer working for Starwood was looking at the school site and got them mixed up.
May 5, 2014, 9:28 pm
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Thank you for letting us know.
We will forward to the appropriate department to investigate.
Best Regards,
Christina Zhou
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
We will forward to the appropriate department to investigate.
Best Regards,
Christina Zhou
Social Media Specialist
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
[email protected]
May 6, 2014, 2:13 am
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EnglishWise
May 6, 2014, 6:50 am
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Spg's IT never ceases to amaze me. As of this morning it's still not fixed. The website still sends you to the educational site.
May 6, 2014, 2:55 pm
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It still goes to EnglishWise.
May 7, 2014, 12:29 am
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Oh i reported another issue (not security or money-related) with SPG.com over a week ago and it's not resolved either. They are slow. Probably outsourced...
Anyway. It's just inconvenient when you want to renew your Starwood Privilege or refer a friend to that website and you get an English Language tutoring service
Anyway. It's just inconvenient when you want to renew your Starwood Privilege or refer a friend to that website and you get an English Language tutoring service
May 7, 2014, 1:44 am
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Well, once this is fixed I hope all eager ones continue to visit http://www.englishwise.com.sg on a daily basis!
May 7, 2014, 5:53 am
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May 7, 2014, 7:44 am
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Day 3 and counting...still English Wise.
I really am amazed at SPG's lack of IT capability. You'd think they'd get this fixed quickly, especially given the SPG site it should lead to is a site that generates revenue for *wood.
I really am amazed at SPG's lack of IT capability. You'd think they'd get this fixed quickly, especially given the SPG site it should lead to is a site that generates revenue for *wood.
