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AT&T Says Personal Information From 73 Million Customers Leaked On The Dark Web—Including Social Security Numbers (www.forbes.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"it’s not known whether the leak came from within the company or one of its vendors."

Isn't it time that big tech companies and their sale of private data get regulated? I see a giant class-action lawsuit in the making here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This is regulated. And there are penalties for violating those regulations. But it’s just not enough. Even a class action lawsuit won’t help the victims. Most of that money goes to lawyers.

Honestly, I don’t expect any of it to change until the penalties are so severe that major companies go under. Aka a corporate death penalty (which the US used to have). But even then, good software security is extremely hard. Almost everyone screws up something.