New year, new tactics to keep your personal info safe after Marriott data breach


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 17 Jan 2019

FILED - Hackers recently stole data from the Marriot hotel chain. Photo: Silas Stein/dpa

LOS ANGELES: As consumers, we're thinking about data breaches all wrong. We ask how something like this can happen. We are shocked when 383 million people, more than the population of the United States, are potentially affected by digital evil-doers. We think nothing will happen to us. And we continue on our merry way. 

Wrong, wrong, wrong, and especially wrong, experts say. 

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