Re:“The mother of all breaches”: 26 billion records found on...
by lencastre on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @02:09PM
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The simplest thing require full name, address, birthdate, age, yes age, mobile phone, fiscal number, last four digits of the credit card, expiration date of credit card, yomama’s maiden name, the middle 8 digits of your credit, your last used password, your pet’s name, the name of the high school you attended, favorite football team, a front and side pictures no smile no hats no glasses, hi resolution scan of government issued ID, and lastly the first four digits.
That’s about it.
And what's annoying is that more and more things now also require phone numbers (like, seriously, in the past an email address was enough but today the simplest thing you want to signup for uses some third party booking platform (which means yet one more party that gets to leak your data) that wants your phone number; even a railway company can't manage its own login anymore. In the mid 2000's I would have thought phone numbers would die and internet would become the new way to communicate but nope, they suddenly became more important instead)