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April 4, 2018 06:55 pm GMT

Every store, business, and retailer that has been recently hacked

If you're a person in the world in 2018, there are probably two words you remain in constant fear of: data breach.

In recent history, several businesses used regularly by modern consumers have been targets of hacks, resulting in compromised data for millions of people.

SEE ALSO: Is someone hijacking your Spotify? Here's what I did when it happened to me.

Perhaps one of the most notable cases was the 2017's Equifax hack, infamous for a multitude of reasons including: the scale of the hack (143 million customers with compromised data); the sensitive nature of the information lost (social security numbers, license numbers, and more); and the way the company bungled the recovery (in the aftermath of the hack, they accidentally directed concerned customers to a phishing scam posing as security site). Read more...

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