Massive mortgage and loan data leak gets worse, original documents also exposed

Re:Massive mortgage and loan data leak gets worse, original ... by WrtCdEvrydy on Friday January 25, 2019 @11:13AM (#18999245)

This will never happen.

I'm taking my security certifications and the first lesson on hardening is that you don't secure something if it's worth less than the countermeasure.

This means your data is only worth about $10 of security while your time to fix identity theft can be in the hundreds.

I bet you a law that says $1000 fine paid directly to the data subject for failure to secure data would make US ideals on data change for decades.

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Re:Massive mortgage and loan data leak gets worse, original ... by iguy on Friday January 25, 2019 @05:06PM (#19003001)

I wonder how far we are from this being a populist position worth taking.

If you proposed a law that getting hacked results in an automatic duty to hand-deliver $1000 in cash to every single person whose detail was leaked... I think voters would cheer pretty loudly, and at some point might drown out the donors?

(Delivered like a subpoena, I'm picturing, along with a booklet explaining your rights... And as a jobs program for delivery-men too.)

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