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#blockchain, Crypto, and Genomics — How They Can Work Together To Protect Your Data
▻https://hackernoon.com/blockchain-crypto-and-genomics-how-they-can-work-together-to-protect-you

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Blockchain, Crypto, and Genomics — How They Can Work Together To Protect Your DataThroughout the last couple of years, data protection has emerged as a leading issue among companies and governing bodies. This is especially true in the United States where several incidents have been identified as a major cause for concern. A few examples include the following:In September 2017, Equifax suffered a massive breach that exposed sensitive data about millions of Americans. Some of the exposed data included passport numbers, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers.In September 2018, an attack on Facebook’s computer network exposed personal information of nearly 50 million users.In November 2018, Marriott announced that its Starwood guest reservation database had been breached. Private (...)

#cryptocurrency #genetics #data-protection #dna

Marriott Concedes 5 Million Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted - The New York Times
►https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/politics/marriott-hack-passports.html

What made the Starwood attack different was the presence of passport numbers, which could make it far easier for an intelligence service to track people who cross borders. That is particularly important in this case: In December, The New York Times reported that the attack was part of a Chinese intelligence gathering effort that, reaching back to 2014, also hacked American health insurers and the Office of Personnel Management, which keeps security clearance files on millions of Americans.

#big_data

►https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/politics/marriott-hack-passports.html

Marriott Concedes 5 Million Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted

On Friday the firm said that teams of forensic and data analysts had identified “approximately 383 million records as the upper limit” for the total number of guest reservations records lost [...]. The revised figure is still the largest loss in history, greater than the attack on Equifax, the consumer credit-reporting agency, which lost the driver’s license and Social Security numbers of roughly 145.5 million Americans in 2017, leading to the ouster of its chief executive and a huge loss of confidence in the firm.

Taken together, the attack appeared to be part of a broader effort by China’s Ministry of State Security to compile a huge database of Americans and others with sensitive government or industry positions — including where they worked, the names of their colleagues, foreign contacts and friends, and where they travel.

Marriott said for the first time that 5.25 million passport numbers were kept in the Starwood system in plain, unencrypted data files.

The company also said that about 8.6 million credit and debit cards were “involved” in the incident, but those are all encrypted — and all but 354,000 cards had expired by September 2018, when the hacking, which went on for years, was discovered.

#bdd #database #espionnage #surveillance #fichiers #fichage #irresponsable #informatique #intelligence #stupidité

Un piratage compromet les données de centaines de millions de clients du groupe hôtelier Marriott
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2018/11/30/un-piratage-compromet-les-donnees-de-centaines-de-millions-de-clients-du-gro

Le système de réservation de sa filiale Starwood a été piraté, et jusqu’à 500 millions de clients pourraient être concernés. Il n’en reste pas moins que tous les clients ayant effectué une réservation dans des hôtels de la marque Starwood jusqu’au 10 septembre dernier inclus sont concernés par cette fuite. L’entreprise affirme avoir commencé à les contacter. Des données très précises Selon le groupe, 327 millions de clients ont vu exposées tout ou partie de leurs données à la fois précises et sensibles : leur (...)

#données #hacking #Marriott

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