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Marriott admits it falsely claimed for five years it was using encryption during 2018 breach (www.csoonline.com)

submitted 6 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/databreaches@lemmy.zip

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Marriot revealed in a court case around a massive 2018 data breach that it had been using secure hash algorithm 1 and not the much more secure AES-1 encryption as it had earlier maintained.

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[–] ceasarlegsvin@kbin.social 10 points 6 months ago

Aes1 and sha1 do very different things...

[–] applepie@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Good thing at least they did not waste any money on some dude's salary who coulda do like a job, that would be really socialist imho thank god we are safe with the leadership like this.