I hate the fact that I feel so small and insignificant because of the futility of speaking to a representative. I did try to contact Rand Paul last year. He never bothered to reply, but did add me to his mailing list. Great.

On the bright side, we do not know that he has leaked it yet :)

Since some percentage of Congressmen and Senators were almost certainly part of the breach, all we need to do is search for them once the data becomes available and post hand-curated lists of Senator McConnell's Shopping Habits.

Remember, we only got the Video Privacy Protection Act after someone published Bork's rental history during his supreme court nomination[0]. I had to say that public shaming works, but, public shaming works.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Privacy_Protection_Act

> When the top folks in the US government are personally affected

The OPM breach covered a lot of powerful senior people.

Not only that, but the Russian site exposed[dot]su has published personal information, including SSNs, about a lot of powerful people, including Michelle Obama, Robert Mueller, Eric Holder, and Hillary Clinton.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/03/who-built-the-id-theft-s...

Indeed, however, the impact of such breaches has yet to be made explicit. It seems only a massive cyber attack would show the public what is possible with such information