Some data breaches include novel information about us, are the result of particularly noteworthy security flaws, or are just so massive they’re impossible to ignore. Here’s EFF’s list of some of the most egregious data breaches of 2024.
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Xfinity is missing from your list. In Dec, 2023, their breach impacted 35 million customers. My husband & I were two of them. My credit monitoring company alerted us to new credit cards. Two each were taken out in our names. It was an all day affair clearing it up and freezing our credit reports. 😖
The job is governance, not surveillance, and, at least in nations that claim democracy, protecting the people is protecting the state, not the other way around.
Lol I have half of anonymous and a few militaries trying to hack my phone so they can call me. If they do, makes a timeline where I ascend, and then I'm back and the security was just stronger.
They have no idea how good it is for them when they do, or I wouldn't feel their frustration.
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"If these companies practiced a privacy first approach and focused on data minimization, only collecting and storing what they absolutely need to provide the services they promise, many data breaches would be far less harmful to the victims.
But instead, companies gobble up as much as they can, store it for as long as possible, and inevitably at some point someone decides to poke in and steal that data."
Data is only fair game when it applies to someone wanting yours . So basically privacy laws are just to make us feel safe whilst we look up a recipe for fish pie
If the public really only knew about how hilariously bad insurance companies are at storing and protecting their data… I’m talking your most private personal medical details uploaded to SharePoints, medical records saved as PDFs without password on shared network drives…
The most powerful breach still is using lists of mobile phone numbers to manipulate smartphone users into clicking some link to install bots such as pegasus on their phones. The story has been documented in the "Pegasus" book from Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud from french "LeMonde" newspaper.
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I wish there was, I'd be far less disappointed in my country, but no, we are just really filled with this many terrible people.
Or how can that check fake ballots?
Governments everywhere need to internalise their inability to safeguard their digital citizens, in a world where digital access is so mainstream.
We're losing.
They have no idea how good it is for them when they do, or I wouldn't feel their frustration.
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