topic Re: Another day, another data breach notification in Privacy

Another day, another data breach notification

AppDefects — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:26:44 GMT

Just when you think the US Federal and Intelligence agencies were done being breached. This happens. The Defense Information Systems Administration (DISA) has suffered a compromise of epic proportions. Will the madness ever end? The apologies are even hitting rock bottom. Used to be they would cover credit monitoring. Not anymore. Then again, I'm covered with the 10 that I already have...

Re: Another day, another data breach notification

denbesten — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 20:51:21 GMT

The letter does state that they will provide credit monitoring, with details to arrive under separate cover -- but you are correct that the mitigation burden is increasingly on the victim. It does seem as if there is now a de facto data-breach process that has a very low cost to the breached party.

If one wants to stop breaches, the cost of remediation needs to exceed the cost of protecting the data in the first place. Perhaps, legislating a check to each victim instead of just a letter.

Re: Another day, another data breach notification

ericgeater — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 03:31:02 GMT

I only see one way out of these: permanently keeping credit freezes.

Re: Another day, another data breach notification

Steve-Wilme — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:20:16 GMT

Maybe returning to cash and barter 😉