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TRAVEL AND YOUR DATA

Hospitality company Marriott International had the highest
number of reported records exposed in 2018, impacting 383

million people worldwide. The breach exposed information
such as passport details, payment card information and date

of birth. In this instance, the unauthorized access dated back
to 2014. Airlines were also impacted, with Cathay Pacific and

Delta experiencing breaches that exposed much of the same
information exposed in the Marriott International breach.

Consumers should ask airlines and hotels what information is necessary to store and for how long

on their servers. Driver’s license numbers, passport numbers and known-traveler information may
be necessary to ensure that you are indeed the person traveling, but the security of the housing

and disposal of that data should be a question every traveler asks of the agency requiring the
information.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION AND RETAILERS

Payment card and account information are highly targeted and often the most common information

obtained in a data breach. A breach at Hudson Bay (Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th and Lord &

Taylor stores) exposed payment card information for 5 million shoppers. A breach at Chegg, a
popular online textbook site, impacted 40 million users and included names, addresses, emails,
and passwords.

Third-party payment processing platforms have often been the cause of exposure. In 2018, 19 local
government agencies publically disclosed that they were impacted by breaches to a third-party
payment platform software called Click2Gov. Another breach of payment platform, GovPayNow.

com, impacted 2,300 government agencies in 35 states.

Consistent monitoring of bank and credit card accounts, reading credit reports
from major agencies, and immediately reporting fraud is crucial to staying ahead

of thieves after your financial information.

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