Marriott Hotels has revealed a huge hack of customer data at its Starwood group of hotels. As many as 500 million persons may have had their names, mailing addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, passport numbers and quite possibly credit card numbers taken. The hack has been in progress for four years up to September and could happened at W Hotels, St. Regis, Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, Westin Hotels and Resorts, Element Hotels, Aloft Hotels, The Luxury Collection, Tribute Portfolio, Le Méridien Hotels and Resorts, Four Points by Sheraton and Design Hotels that participate in the Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) program.
PAYLESS TRICKS SNOOTY BUYERS INTO PAYING $600 FOR $20 SHOES
Bargain shoe retailer Payless has used the bogus label Palessi to trick social media influencers in Los Angeles into paying as much as US$600 for footwear sold at Payless for $20. Payless ShoeSource recently set up a fake luxury pop-up shop in a former Armani store along the upscale Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, Calif. The affordable shoe company then invited social media influencers to a ritzy two-day “grand opening” for Palessi.