So 3 records for each person on earth. Nice.
Title says billions, not trillions.
Data leak contains 26B records from numerous previous breaches
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#12I 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’s time for attorney generals to hold permanent identity monitoring pots and funds.
The idea that someone can lose all your data and then pay for two years of identity monitoring is absurd. The people with the data can see that and can just wait two years to sell it. Social security numbers don’t reset after two years.
If you lose data, you pay a data breach tax forever. Over time, your competitors will be able to run with lower margins if they stay secure. As companies die out, the remaining breaches ones are responsible to keep footing the bill.
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#15Suggested link change: https://cybernews.com/security/billions-passwords-credential... The other is just a way for malwarebytes to get some clicks and contains very little information.
Ok, changed to that from https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/01/the-mother-of... above. Thanks!
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#17Until we stop implicitly trusting third parties with unencrypted data this will continue to feel like not even news.
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#18Until we stop implicitly trusting third parties with unencrypted data this sort of thing will continue to feel like not even news.
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#19I 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'd say it's an inevitable state of affairs. With networked general computers the amount of leaked information tends to 100% of available information over time. Unless you can design, build and run absolutely safe systems.
Cybersecurity is a sham, a bolt on industry extracting rent out of the mobile internet junkies we've become.
We want to have an endless stream of entertainment and trivia so bad we've actually built homes with locks that connect to the internet. You'd think a networked lock defeats its purpose.
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#20So 3 records for each person on earth. Nice.
Title says billions, not trillions.
Casual reminder that in some languages the American English trillion (10^12) is called a billion. It confusing but might explain the mistake. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion