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

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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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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

Aes1 and sha1 do very different things...