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US senator proposes jailing execs, fining companies for data breaches

December 4, 2018

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When it comes to breaches, bing, bang, boom!

First, Dell disclosed a “potential cybersecurity incident” and a mandatory reset of passwords for all Dell.com accounts. Next, Dunkin Donuts disclosed a credential stuffing attack (pdf) that may have allowed third parties to log into DD Perks accounts and access the data tied to those accounts. And then Marriott tried the old release-breach-news-on-Friday trick.

If Marriott had hoped the Friday-announced news of Starwood’s guest reservation database being breached would cycle out of the news system quickly, then it was likely disappointed.

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