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Companies Wanting to sell people things isn't the problem. Using the most mundane details of our life to manipulate us, and to extract as much money from us as

Companies Wanting to sell people things isn't the problem. Using the most mundane details of our life to manipulate us, and to extract as much money from us as possible is a problem. So is failing to secure that data. https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/disney-responds-to-alleged-hack-we-have-found-no-evidence-of-a-security-breach https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/disney-responds-to-all... https://finance.yahoo.com/video/disney-responds-data-breach-thousands-202322416.html?guccounter=1 https://finance.yahoo.com/video/disney-responds-data-breach-... https://chipandco.com/the-walt-disney-world-dolphin-hotel-was-involved-in-a-data-breach-223459/ https://chipandco.com/the-walt-disney-world-dolphin-hotel-wa...

JonathonW 4y ago
The first two reference something where there's no strong evidence showing that it actually happened (it's more likely that it was credential stuffing-- using data from other breaches to compromise Disney+ accounts using the same passwords), and the third was Starwood Hotels (now Marriott), not Disney.
- autoexec 4y ago
  My fault! One of those first two should have been about this: https://disneynewstoday.net/2016/07/31/disney-interactive-shuts-down-playdom-forums-over-data-breach/ https://disneynewstoday.net/2016/07/31/disney-interactive-sh... I wouldn't give Disney a pass on the credential stuffing. https://www.the-parallax.com/poor-security-password-reuse-disney-plus-breach/ https://www.the-parallax.com/poor-security-password-reuse-di... As for the hotel it's sort of a partnership deal, Disney owns the land, built it, leases the building to another company to run, takes a cut of the profits, and has them branded as part of their Walt Disney Collection of resorts. I think it's fair to give Disney the blame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World_Dolphin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World_Dolphin There's also this, which you could argue was outside of their control too, but I think once a company hands your data over to third parties they're on the hook for what happens as a result: https://threatpost.com/epsilon-data-breach-expands-include-capital-one-disney-others-040411/75100/ https://threatpost.com/epsilon-data-breach-expands-include-c...

JonathonW 4y ago

The first two reference something where there's no strong evidence showing that it actually happened (it's more likely that it was credential stuffing-- using data from other breaches to compromise Disney+ accounts using the same passwords), and the third was Starwood Hotels (now Marriott), not Disney.

autoexec 4y ago
My fault! One of those first two should have been about this: https://disneynewstoday.net/2016/07/31/disney-interactive-shuts-down-playdom-forums-over-data-breach/ https://disneynewstoday.net/2016/07/31/disney-interactive-sh... I wouldn't give Disney a pass on the credential stuffing. https://www.the-parallax.com/poor-security-password-reuse-disney-plus-breach/ https://www.the-parallax.com/poor-security-password-reuse-di... As for the hotel it's sort of a partnership deal, Disney owns the land, built it, leases the building to another company to run, takes a cut of the profits, and has them branded as part of their Walt Disney Collection of resorts. I think it's fair to give Disney the blame. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World_Dolphin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World_Dolphin There's also this, which you could argue was outside of their control too, but I think once a company hands your data over to third parties they're on the hook for what happens as a result: https://threatpost.com/epsilon-data-breach-expands-include-capital-one-disney-others-040411/75100/ https://threatpost.com/epsilon-data-breach-expands-include-c...