Dec 4, 2018
Have you heard about the recent Marriott and Quora hack? Craig discusses this with Jim on the Jim Polito Show. Find out more about this hack and about FitLoo, the smart toilet.
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Below is a rush transcript of this segment, it might contain errors.
Airing date: 12/04/2018
Marriott Hack Quora Hack - What Does It Mean To Me - What To Do About It - Free Offer
Craig Peterson: 0:00
Hey, good morning everybody. I was on with Mr. Jim Polito this
morning, we talked a lot about the Marriott hack what happened and
not really why it happens. You don't have all the details yet. But
what it means to you. Are you one of the people who hasn't even
checked your credit report. Did you know three out of five
Americans haven't even checked their credit report, let alone
frozen their credit. The new Tax Act that was signed in by
President Trump provides us with some amazing opportunity here. So
we've got Equifax last year we've got this Marriott hack which
really has been occurring for the last three to four years which is
just crazy. So what should you be doing now I talked with Jim about
that this morning I have after I hung up with Jim I've been on the
horn with my team we are putting together a bang up special report
here on what we need to do in a order to check our credit what does
that mean how do we do it for free what are we looking for and then
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going to provide us with what can we do what can we do with our
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our friend, Mr. Jim Polito,
Unknown 3:38
The man with the plan and the giant brain. I'm talking about our
Tech Talk guru Craig Peterson. Good morning sir. Hey good morning
Craig this you got to help us with this we have so many different
topics today but I want to start off with the most important the
Marriott hack three on hundred and 27 million guests thank you very
much Marriott Corporation What are these folks going to do?
Unknown 4:11
Oh boy this is this is crazy. There's quite a bit of stuff you
haven't heard in the news but what what first of all I think the
most important thing to remember is the bad guys have been in this
database since about that looks like maybe 2014. So this is a
really really bad deal and we got to give Marriott a little bit of
a break because it was the Starwood groups that actually had been
hacked and then Marriott bought them and as part of Marriott
integration of their computer systems. Marriott figured out what
had happened
Unknown 4:48
oh ok. So we Starwood and they they bought Starwood
Unknown 4:52
Exactly. So you know, that doesn't mean that they've heard well,
right, yeah, it was so reminiscent of last year with the Equifax
hack. It's It is really crazy here. They've done so many things
wrong. For instance, they've sent out notices by email to people
whose data was stolen. We'll talk about that data in a minute here.
But they sent out the email. They didn't send them up from
http://Marriott.com they didn't send them out from any official
website. The domain they sent them out from if you try and go to
the website of that domain. There is no website at that domain.
It's email-marriott.com. No certificates. Yes, there's no
identifying security certificate for the email. The email is not
digitally signed to show that it is Marriott doing it the only way
you can even figure out that this might be legitimate is Marriott
on their data breach notification site has a small note saying yeah
by the way a third party firm is sending you email What do we tell
people day in day out about clicking on email Jim.
Unknown 6:08
Right. You tell them not to do it.
Unknown 6:13
Exactly. So I'm just I'm shaking my head here now as is the case
with so many problems that you have in business you bring in these
PR firms that know how to do with disaster response right that
that's what so many businesses do well Marriott had set this domain
up apparently earlier this year and it sent out to me email from
there but there's no way for regular person to check and see hey
wait a minute now is this email coming from a scammer into come
from the Marriott Corporation? Email-Marriott.com. That's not where
I normally get my email for Marriott. They blown this thing. It's
crazy. And then now let's talk about the data that was stolen. k.
You mentioned What? 300 million?
Unknown 7:03
327 million yeah,
Unknown 7:04
exactly. It could be as high as 500 million. But that number 327 is
right now considered to be the most accurate and look at the list
of stuff that was stolen as part of this hack. It includes all your
personal information. And I mean, personal. Because if you traveled
abroad and you were with Starwood, you had to give your passport
number.
Unknown 7:35
OK, so now we've got scammers out there that are that have their
passport, you know, bad guys pickers that have passport numbers for
all of us have all of this information.
Unknown 7:51
My gosh, and so now we have to worry about a few things. First of
all, you've got to worry about your credit and your credit being
used your identity stolen, okay, you have to be okay. You have to
worry about your passport. Now worried about your passport may not
be as big a deal because when it comes to credit cards, for
instance, all you really have to worry about is that somebody might
use it and you have to know this and then you have to follow
through. Okay. Yeah, having your identity stolen means that you
could get pulled over for broken taillight on your car. And all of
a sudden you are the subject Alba felony arrest and other words,
all of a sudden, there's a half a dozen police cars, your face down
in there in that very cool statement. Yeah, on the road. Right,
right. And when it comes to your passport number, the bad guys have
the number but it's not terribly useful to them. Because if you
still have to have a physical passport, okay, now think about this.
in the longer term. I just flew out of around Orlando airport a
couple of weeks ago, I was down there for conference. And in the
Orlando airport, they had these new identity machines that were
biometric. And the federal government has in our passport, RFID
chip, they've got these little chips that can be read in your
passport, right? So the bad guys can reproduce a passport. But it's
very expensive, very hard to do. So only the most determined bad
guys, maybe bad guys like Al Qaeda, that will send their people to
flight training school, you know, can use this thing can do it.
It's it's not going to be your average run of the mill bad guy
that's trying to steal your identity that's going to be able to
really make use of the passport I get concerned because I see the
federal government going closer and closer to having completely
digital IDs, no paper and that concerns me more now. We've got the
Marriott breach on top of Equifax last year. So we're talking about
two of the biggest breaches in history. And many of us have our
data not just on these sites. But in many other sites. Now, there
is something really good that came out of the recent tax bill. And
what came out of it from a security standpoint is you can get your
credit frozen for no charge. Now from the
Unknown 10:28
right now you don't have to pay it all.
Unknown 10:31
Exactly. It used to be 10 bucks to lock it down. Lock all three of
these credit agencies. So it was 30 bucks every time you turn
around, basically, yeah, if you want to get new credit somewhere so
right now bottom line is freeze your credit. Okay, just three and
five Americans have ever even looked at their credit score. And you
know, preaching a credit as a step beyond that. And we're seeing
this happen more and more. There's no good solution for this. Thank
God. Marriott caught this, you know, I wish it had been caught
three, four years ago. But consider this, okay, it's not going to
cost you anything. I've got a report that I can send out to you
that goes step by step through exactly how to freeze your credit.
You can ask me for that you can send me a text, you can email
me@CraigPeterson.com. I'll make sure you get that report. If you're
one of the people that's on my monthly subscription for watching
the dark web. You already have that report because I send it out
whenever I find a compromise to you. But I'm more than happy to
send that to you. I advise everyone not only check your credit
report, but freeze your credit. And then if if you want new credit,
you can have to unfreeze it. But it leaves now thanks to the Trump
sign tax bill. It's free.
Unknown 11:56
We're talking with Craig Peterson, our Tech Talk guru you heard
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your name. Alright, this one. I just have to go here.
Unknown 12:26
A high tech toilet. How can I say it tracking my every movement? I
it's a family show, Craig. But what is this is your on the spot
here. It says smart toilet.
Unknown 12:48
Why do I need a smart toilet? If a toilet was smart? You would no
longer want to do the job it was designed for
Unknown 12:57
exactly Is that true? Or do you remember the movie The island I
love that movie hi fi movie. And if you picked it a future where
they were raising people duplicates of people shown so they can
harvest organs. Right? Yep. And one of the things they had to do
was make sure these clones were healthy. Yeah. And so it monitored
their urine output. Yep. And so now researchers at the European
Space Agency have teamed up with MIT sanitation specialists who
thought MIT got into tenants
Unknown 13:34
and toilets. Yeah,
Unknown 13:36
yeah, it's called FitLoo.
Unknown 13:40
FitLoo.
Unknown 13:42
That's what the British in some Europeans call a toilet, the
loo
Unknown 13:46
The loo. Exactly and it's located in the water closet
Unknown 13:50
Yes, in the water closet
Unknown 13:52
and it screens human waste for early signs of disease. This is
really kind of a cool idea you know, I you know, I was in medicine
for many years and her medicine and medical people are kind of
strange. First of all, they smoke far more often than the regular
public and secondly they tend to examine their excretion and
Unknown 14:18
because there are so many things you can gather from that human
ways that data is gathered by sensors in the toilet bowl century
your mobile phone you can see how your health is doing how it's
changing you'll be able to see from this symptoms of early diabetes
all the way through an intestinal bleed is phenomenal and I gotta
say when it comes to intestinal belief I have a sister in law who
has been in critical condition now for a week and a half they
finally were breathing tube because she had a rupture in we're in
testing
Unknown 14:57
something like this FitLoo might have helped them oh it's fun to
choke out there's so many jokes
Unknown 15:04
yeah it is also true so okay I got a smart toilet watching my every
moment no but if it detects disease, that's fine. Alright so if you
would look there's a lot of other stuff that Craig got to me this
week but we wanted to make sure we focused on that Marriott hack so
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you so much look forward to talking with you next week
Unknown 16:07
alright thanks Jim and get that out to people that report on
freezing your credits to people who have a little bit later on this
morning
Unknown 16:14
excellent thanks Craig. Appreciate it. Craig Peterson everybody.
All right when we return a final word.
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