Looking at a different story in the headlines today, I think Royal Bank
of Scotland may feel differently about the nature of publicity. Even
though I'm sure there's more to the story than meets the eye, the
perception that their customer data ends up being flogged on eBay can't
be regarded as anything other than bad publicity.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7581540.stm
Tim Turner
Wigan Council
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Or they're working on it and need exclusivity on parts of the system.
Plus all of your suggestions. There's no such thing as bad publicity.
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Sent: 26 August 2008 11:09
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Subject: Re: [data-protection] Best Western?
Jethro R Binks wrote:
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Tim Trent wrote:
Late last night I picked up another part of this story where Best
Western states that the breach only affected 13 people.
Best Western UK website has a link to their statement which gives their
version of events ("don't panic, crap journalism" would be a summary).
Jethro.
I wonder if the object of the exercise was a weird Denial of Service
attack on Best Western. The site took 67.774 seconds to load. This
will lose them online bookings because online bookings are for folk who
want instant gratification.
It could also have been a crazy Search Engine Optimisation thing! It
will have generated a vast number of good quality inbound links to the
site!
I am cynical today!
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