Marriott International Chief Financial Officer Leeny Oberg spoke at an investor conference where she told attendees it was too early to determine the costs related to the hotel chain’s data breach, Bloomberg reports. Oberg said other notable data breaches do not necessarily help in any attempt to guess Marriott’s future payments. “Any situation that you’ve seen from other companies, they are all highly individual, and no one should make an assumption about, if it was this way for one company, it will be that way for another,” Oberg said. Reuters reports the hackers behind the breach may work for a Chinese government intelligence operation, and The Hill reports the incident has launched a new wave of calls for a federal U.S. privacy law.
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