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April 4, 2018 06:55 pm GMT
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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.
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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