Hopefully the data breach at Marriott that potentially exposed the personal data of roughly 500 million guests is enough to make both businesses and elected officials take cybersecurity more seriously.

The Marriott breach is just the latest to make the news.

Darden Restaurants, which owns the Olive Garden in Lakewood, made it public in August that credit card information from 567,000 credit card numbers of diners at Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen between Nov. 3, 2017, and Jan. 2, 2018, could have been compromised. Macy’s shoppers who shopped online between April 26 and June 12 could have had their personal information exposed to a third party. Business Insider reported recently that Adidas announced in June that someone had accessed customer data on Adidas’ U.S. website. Sears was part of a breach earlier this year that exposed the credit-card information of nearly 100,000 people. Let’s not forget breaches by Google and Facebook. The list goes on and on.

E-commerce isn’t going anywhere. Shoppers should make sure to have solid anti-virus software on their computer, use strong passwords, strengthen home computer networks to make it more difficult for hackers to gain access and make sure children know what is safe to open when they’re on the computer and what should be immediately disregarded.

Any organization conducting business online must invest heavily in cybersecurity so that people know their personal information is safe. And, it’s time for Congress to step in and give the Federal Trade Commission rule-making authority over data privacy and more effective penalties for data breaches, as Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., has long advocated. Among Warner’s proposals is data protection legislation that features data portability, the right to be forgotten, 72-hour data breach notification, first party consent and other data protections. Warner would like to see databases that handle personal data built with data protection including use of pseudonyms and anonymization.

Piecemeal approaches aren’t working, as is evidenced by the continued data breaches that make the news. Businesses and individuals can all do more to protect private information — and Congress can pass laws with some teeth as well.