Sept. 16, 2023, 3:32 a.m. | /u/sosaykay

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In the latest news on hotel & casino ransomware attacks coming out of Vegas this week, I'm perplexed by one thing related to PII reportedly compromised from Caesars loyalty program database:

**Why did they capture & store SSNs for their loyalty program? What purpose did that data serve?**

Other than credit checks of high-rollers requesting a marker for the first time... I can't come up with other scenarios when a hotel or casino would require SSN. Even in the case …

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