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Data leak contains 26B records from numerous previous breaches

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Re: Data leak contains 26B records from numerous previous breaches

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Post by hdlothia »

I feel like the people who calculate that it's more cost effective to deal with the hit from a security breach vs spending money on good security have won.

I have gone from feeling outraged to completely numb to these kind of disclosures and have pretty much just assumed that my information will inevitably be leaked somewhere by someone.

Does anyone else feel this way? I just keep a close eye on my financial statements and hope for the best.

Re: Data leak contains 26B records from numerous previous breaches

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

hdlothia wrote: post #4

I feel like the people who calculate that it's more cost effective to deal with the hit from a security breach vs spending money on good security have won. I have gone from feeling outraged to completely numb to these kind of disclosures and have pretty much just assumed that my information will inevitably be leaked somewhere by someone. Does anyone else feel this way? I just keep a close eye on my financial statemen…

It exhausting. It's a sense of continual doom.

Re: Data leak contains 26B records from numerous previous breaches

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Post by Aardwolf »

hdlothia wrote: post #4

I feel like the people who calculate that it's more cost effective to deal with the hit from a security breach vs spending money on good security have won. I have gone from feeling outraged to completely numb to these kind of disclosures and have pretty much just assumed that my information will inevitably be leaked somewhere by someone. Does anyone else feel this way? I just keep a close eye on my financial statemen…

With email addresses you can use multiple to not be too affected. But phone numbers are less replaceable than email addresses...

And what's annoying is that more and more things now also require phone numbers (like, seriously, in the past an email address was enough but today the simplest thing you want to signup for uses some third party booking platform (which means yet one more party that gets to leak your data) that wants your phone number; even a railway company can't manage its own login anymore. In the mid 2000's I would have thought phone numbers would die and internet would become the new way to communicate but nope, they suddenly became more important instead)

Re: Data leak contains 26B records from numerous previous breaches

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Post by autoexec »

hdlothia wrote: post #4

I feel like the people who calculate that it's more cost effective to deal with the hit from a security breach vs spending money on good security have won. I have gone from feeling outraged to completely numb to these kind of disclosures and have pretty much just assumed that my information will inevitably be leaked somewhere by someone. Does anyone else feel this way? I just keep a close eye on my financial statemen…

I still feel like this is why the penalties for allowing user's data to be leaked should be harsh enough to make it worthwhile for companies take even basic steps to protect other people's data, or even better, to avoid collecting it or keeping it in the first place.

Since that hasn't happened yet, I try to avoid handing my data over when I can.

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