It was China, in the Marriott database, with the hack

Worldly

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News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 13 December 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Zack and Jenn discuss the massive hack of Marriott, in which the information of as many as 500 million people was stolen. China appears to be the culprit — part of a broader cyber assault on US institutions that amounts to a massive Chinese intelligence coup against America. On Elsewhere, they discuss British Prime Minister Theresa May’s uncomfortably close victory in a vote challenging her leadership of the Conservative Party, and what that means for the future of Brexit. Zack adopts some British vocabulary and Jenn vents about the many irritations of the security clearance process. The team cited this New York Times piece about the hacks throughout the episode. The full Fox & Friends interview with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo can be found here. If you want to read more about the security clearance process, Jenn recommends this FAQ. Zack mentioned that the CFO of Huawei was arrested in Canada, but here's a much more in-depth look at what that means. And for more context on the no-confidence vote, Vox has two pieces you might enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So you may have heard of the massive Marriott hack where up to 500 million Marriott guests had their
0:15.0	information compromised by hackers. It turns out it's a lot worse than you thought.
0:21.2	The information was probably stolen by China and there are lots of
0:25.2	nefarious purposes to which they could put their ill-gotten knowledge. Hi, I'm Zach Beacham and this is the
0:30.5	worldly podcast on the Fox Media Podcast Network.
0:33.4	I'm here as always with Jen Williams.
0:35.2	Hi.
0:36.2	Alex Ward is out of town in Japan where he is go-karting around the streets dressed as Spider-Man,
0:40.4	also reporting, but mostly go-karting.
0:42.4	You can do reporting and go-karting at the same time it turns out.
0:45.0	But in Alex's absence we're going to discuss the Marriott hack anyway.
0:50.0	So Jen, what was the sort of basic gist of what happened?
0:55.0	Okay, so there was this massive cyber attack on the Marriott hotel chain, so not just Marriott,
1:00.0	but other Marriott owned properties, hotels you've probably stayed at.
1:04.0	All these properties had their information databases hacked and so the hackers got all kinds of
1:10.4	information on as many as 500 million guests.
1:14.6	So we're talking things like credit card numbers,
1:17.4	passport information, like passport numbers,
1:19.5	things you have to fill out on forms
1:21.0	when you book a hotel room, dates of stay, like travel patterns, things like that.
1:25.0	Yeah, that one really freaks me out and they're associated, right?
1:27.0	So they know not only what your name is, but also the dates at which you were at, the Marriott at that particular point.
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