2.9 Billion At Risk: One Of History's Largest Data Breaches

Happened in April but being divulged now? And a background check company?

And guess how they get alot of that information but telling people they must opt of having their information come up during a search. But to do that one has to give personal information.

Also keep in mind anytime one does one of those dna tests the results will go into a database that can be stolen or sold. Yes one's information is out there but one shouldn't be giving it away on a silver platter either.
 
I was skeptical of another poster’s warning about the new Login.gov site, but it’s true. I didn't mean to offend the original poster. I just thought that if the Fed really had rolled out a new, central site, surely at least some major news would cover it?

Chirp chirp chirp is the sound of crickets in the newsrooms. Too shorthanded to protect 380 million Americans with Social Security numbers.

https://login.gov/
 

These data breaches are so big I can hardly wrap my head around them.

I agree that for those who are singled out the impact could be devastating but it seems like the odds of that happening to me specifically are about like the odds of me being struck by lightning. 🤔
 
Today, I think "privacy" is a quaint idea. Without giving a sample, it's digitally possible to recreate your DNA profile from those on file. And after hundreds and hundreds of such data breaches, there can't be much still under wraps. Plus, with such huge data dumps, what do you do with it? Once it's online, it loses all value to the poster.
 
I get mail all of the time saying that a hacker got my data and to contact the place that is supposed to have failed to keep my data safe.
The whole point of it is to sell you insurance or protection to protect your data so that it supposedly can’t be hacked into.
It is all a scam.
The latest ones I got say Ticketmaster all over it.
I know that it is a scam because I have never done business with Ticketmaster.
I would be suing Ticketmaster if they allowed any of my data to be compromised being as how they have no reason for having my data in the first place.
I get emails saying that there is a problem with my Amazon account and that my account will be frozen if I don’t contact- “Phony Joe @.” Or some other lame site.
I have never had an Amazon account in my name so once again —Scam,Scam,Scam.
On emails all you have to do is take a good look at who the email is from.
I get some from PayPal and then it will have @ some foreigners name.
If it just said PayPal.com then I would contact PayPal but I’m blocking and deleting anybody else.
 
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I suppose all the organized home areas at the internet are also Phishing sites.
All the ads and selling of stuff at those sites. The sites at war with each other in court.
Owned by organized investment people.
Ask Wikipedia for info about that stuff. "X" answers it all.

The Gov mails him regular updates. Of course there are crooked postmasters. 10517 in total employed.
One was caught swiping EBay shipments.
 
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Are you talking about sites that sell home organizing supplies?
I buy those kind of things from stores.
You have to be careful who you do business with.
The only scam that has affected us is when somebody copies our credit card information and is using it by charging things.
We have had to cancel a credit card and have new one issued.
Luckily we had enough cash that it didn’t slow us down.
Both times when that had happened was when we were on vacation.
Once in Fl. and again in Alaska.
Someone copies your information and sends it to a relative who lives clear across the country.
We were lucky that the credit card company caught it both times and it didn’t cost us anything.
 

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