This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
This crap is the new norm. Companies compile your data, don’t secure it, and the whole world becomes victims of identity theft. Then they get free credit monitoring from the companies that screwed then.
Use a strong password manager with unique complicated passwords.
Freeze your credit.
Assume someone is trying to impersonate you and open credit cards in your name at all times.
Sad state of affairs today.
"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.
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.
