Data on 7% of Americans Were Just Hacked, Now What?

Re:Data on 7% of Americans Were Just Hacked, Now What? by lisper on Friday July 10, 2015 @05:34PM (#9866864)

I downvoted you because you need to support your claim. 21 million Americans had their personal information compromised. That's 7% of the ~300M population. Summarizing that state of affairs as "7% of Americans were hacked" seems reasonable to me.

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Re:Data on 7% of Americans Were Just Hacked, Now What? by mangeletti on Friday July 10, 2015 @05:40PM (#9866909)

While I do appreciate your honesty (re: downvote), gaining access to my information isn't intrinsically hacking[1]. Hacking might be the means of gaining the information. In this case, hacking did take place, but not the hacking of 21 million Americans, rather on some government servers. I've added citation to my original comment.

Anyway, it doesn't matter because the OP was flagged into oblivion.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28computer_security%29

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Re:Data on 7% of Americans Were Just Hacked, Now What? by lisper on Friday July 10, 2015 @05:53PM (#9867019)

> gaining access to my information isn't intrinsically hacking

Perhaps not, but saying "I was hacked" is a commonly used colloquialism that means, "My supposedly secure personal information was compromised."

But I guess it's a moot point now.

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