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AT&T Says Personal Information From 73 Million Customers Leaked On The Dark Web—Including Social Security Numbers (www.forbes.com)

submitted 7 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Devils advocate: It would give them additional insensitive to cover up the fact it happend.

My 2 cents: companies cant be trusted with your data and local data containers which you control, can give or reject limited acces to need to become the norm.

[–] WordBox@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cant cover it up if the hackers take credit. And with the info collected it won't take much time to pin point where it came from.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

Its happened before that leaks where covered up for months though, gives them time to sell stocks before public backlash .

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I mean yeah it probably would. But that's essentially just blackmail.

For there should be is an entire branch of government dedicated to regulating and auditing data security in large corporations.