Still_Small_Voice Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 Data brokers are exceptionally good at gathering, organizing and selling information. But if the revelation that Exactis left 340 million records accessible to anyone who searched for it is any indicator, they aren't particularly good at protecting that data. This latest news means a company most people haven't even heard of has put the private information of a significant portion of the U.S. population at risk. Again. This exact scenario has been repeated often enough over the last few years that it's starting to become as predictable as a children's story. A company made a bunch of money collecting information about people and then selling it to other companies. But it failed to secure that data, leaving hundreds of millions of people compromised. Soon, we'll probably hear about one year of free identity theft protection and some executive shake-ups. Then, we'll probably learn that even more people were affected by this leak, and then it'll finally leave the news cycle, we expect. Read more at: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/exactis-data-breach-leak,37381.html NeuroTypical 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeuroTypical Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 From the source story: Quote ...the leak doesn't seem to contain credit card information or Social Security numbers—it does go into minute detail for each individual listed, including phone numbers, home addresses, email addresses, and other highly personal characteristics for every name. The categories range from interests and habits to the number, age, and gender of the person's children. Well, this one doesn't seem to be so bad. Same defense as usual - don't be gullible, be wise as serpents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mordorbund Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 16 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said: 16 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said: and other highly personal characteristics for every name. Well, this one doesn't seem to be so bad. Not everyone is so public with their bronyism... or their hobby of observing cats do embarrassing things. NeuroTypical and zil 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fether Posted June 28, 2018 Report Share Posted June 28, 2018 1 hour ago, NeuroTypical said: From the source story: Well, this one doesn't seem to be so bad. Same defense as usual - don't be gullible, be wise as serpents. I don’t want my home address with the amount of kids and their ages floating around the web. That is actually terrifying to be honest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mordorbund Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 Anytime the InterWebs ask about my children I always include Kevin McCallister, just to be safe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeuroTypical Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 3 hours ago, mordorbund said: Not everyone is so public with their bronyism... or their hobby of observing cats do embarrassing things. Great - another stalker. Line goes around the back, T-shirts are $25! mordorbund 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mordorbund Posted June 29, 2018 Report Share Posted June 29, 2018 15 minutes ago, NeuroTypical said: Great - another stalker. Line goes around the back, T-shirts are $25! Were they already worn by you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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