It's a day that ends in "y," and you know what that means... there was another data breach! Capital One has announced a data breach, where on July 19, 2019, they discovered there was unauthorized access by an outside individual who obtained certain types of personal information related to card members. Capital One says that…
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I doubt there are many people that are left that don't have their numbers on the dark web from Marriott, Target, etc, so it's probably more like 2 million.
My hope is that Paige was not connected to any (more) evil people. Seems by reading the papers, she was just a disgruntled screw-up. Hopefully.
You've fallen into the trap of parroting their PR spin of "No SSNs were compromised other than.…" instead of "x SSNs were compromised". It is even more egregious in their communication as below the bold heading of "No SSNs were compromised" they mention that 1 million Canadian SINs (the functional equivalent in Canada of SSNs) were compromised, which is pretty significant in a country of 37 million people.
These banks and large companies will continue to have a reckless disregard for consumer information security until the penalties become really significant and perhaps criminal negligence charges brought against the leadership. It’s clear that these companies aren’t spending enough to protect us and at the end of the day, the victims are left to fend for themselves, with the attorneys and federal government benefiting from the fines assessed, not the little people who are affected. If a few CEOs along with Ms. Paige go to jail then maybe this stuff will get cleaned up.
Is it bad that my immediate reaction is "can't wait for the class action lawsuit so I can get my 40 bucks"?
I have a freeze on all three credit bureaus. I have extra low tax withholding so never get a refund, so don't worry about somebody filing a fake return. Crazy times we're living in.
The functioning of US society relies so much on the personal credit profiles, yet the safeguard for these is mismatchingly minimal. Is it that difficult to learn to be a developed country?
I am not too concerned about the credit card numbers due to protections that are in place, but it is more the other information that is gathered that can be used to do the take over of your identity. I am looking for the day when the US develop regulations similar to Europe's GRPR that allows individuals to control what type of data is available/collected on the web. No, it won't stop identify takeovers, but will slow down the huge databases of personal data being collected that put together for that reason is my huge concern. Besides the "dark web" look at the amount of data that paid services provide like truthfinder, mylife, etc where you can't control information that is collected. Facebook, linkedin, etc. are controllable to what you provide. Our kids will never knew what privacy used to be.