This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Any company accumulating, aggregating, and centralizing every piece of private and public under the sun about people is a ticking time bomb (and that is a lot of companies these days).
We need harsher penalties for these assholes, and a privacy amendment so that we actually have some rights when dealing with them.
Also, from a national security perspective we need to make sure this isn't a slow attack to make westerners more vulnerable than other places that aren't liberal democracies.
I like how my social security card explicitly says not to be for identification and tax purposes only. But I need for absolutely fucking everything and to identify I'm a citizen. Can hardly sign up for a new email without a SSN. (Exaggerating of course about the email)
to identify I'm a citizen.
It's kinda worse than that
it's used to authenticate yourself as a citizen.
My SSN should at most be an ID, no different from a name. I can identify myself as Darth Vader or 4200-69-1337, but that shouldn't matter, because I should never be able to authenticate myself as either of those.
I think you miss typed a number, that one doesnt seem to be working
Is there a simple way to find out if your Information was in this leak, and what information it is? I use haveibeenpwned for leaks linked to my email address, but from I read in this article, it's not linked to my email address.
So how do I found out if my data was leaked without paying for a credit monitoring service?
We got notified by email from the credit monitoring our credit card provides.
Good god. Thats like, every person that has ever used a computer probably. Fuck.
Is this why I got the latest scam email saying I need to pay $4k in bitcoin else a video of me wanking would be leaked.
How about you send it to me instead and I'll pay you the 4k
Oh shit sorry. I must have accidentally sent that email to the wrong person. I meant to send that to my dad.
2 billion social security numbers? What's the population of the US?
Worth noting looks like this breach was first reported at the start of June
There is a small silver lining, according to the VX team: "The database DOES NOT contain information from individuals who use data opt-out services. Every person who used some sort of data opt-out service was not present." So, we guess this is a good lesson in opting out.
Wonder what the best opt-out service is.
