December 3rd, 2018

Senators call for data breach penalties, tougher privacy laws after Marriott hack

A slew of Democratic senators are calling for tougher privacy laws — and even steep fines for companies that fail to protect their customers’ data from data breaches — in the wake of Marriott’s admission that hackers compromised the personal information of up to 500 million of its customers.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-cybersecurity-202/2018/12/03/the-cybersecurity-202-senators-call-for-data-breach-penalties-tougher-privacy-laws-after-marriott-hack/5c0436431b326b60d12800d2/?utm_term=.508857916941