Marriott International CEO Arne Sorenson is scheduled to
testify at a March 7 Senate hearing examining private sector data breaches this
Thursday.
Arne Sorenson
Led by Sens. Tom Carper (D-Delaware) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio)
of the Homeland Security & Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations, the hearing will be Sorenson's first testimony since Marriott
divulged a massive security breach of its Starwood network to the public on Nov.
30, 2018.
In its latest update, Marriott has estimated that as many as
383 million guest records -- including combinations of names, mailing
addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, passport numbers and payment card
numbers among other personal identifiers -- were potentially exposed.
The subcommittee also will hear from Equifax CEO Mark Begor on
that company's 2017 data breach.
The hearing will include a panel of government agency and
nonprofit representatives, who will discuss policies that could help prevent
future cyberattacks and data breaches.