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158 Million Records Exposed (And Counting)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the do-i-get-a-vitamin-now dept.

Lucas123 writes "According to the The Privacy Rights Clearing House 158 million records have been exposed over the past two years as a result of inadequate security. Data's less secure today because as fast as banks, merchants and consumers add new layers of security to their storage systems and networks, new technologies — or simply careless users — create new security holes, according to Bob Scheier at Computerworld."

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  1. Fixed? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nothing for you to see here, please move along Phew, at least they fixed the problem quickly!
    1. Re:Fixed? by SilentChris · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah, it's all fixed. What the summary failed to mention is that those 158 million records were 158 million individual breakins for 1 record each. It actually was the same guy's record each time. So, it's not that bad. Sucks to be that guy, though.

  2. Re:i read it somewhere else by bxbaser · · Score: 2, Funny

    it is if my dogs name is kjGO6375nto87TONkj35jv25jh235