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ClixSense Suffers Massive Data Breach, 6.6 Million Users Compromised (digitaltrends.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the unauthorized-access dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Digital Trends: ClixSense, a site which pays users to view ads and take surveys, was the victim of a massive data breach compromising around 6.6 million user accounts. Usually when there's a data breach of this size, the information stolen contains usernames, passwords, and some other personal information, but due to the nature of ClixSense and the service it provided, home addresses, payment histories, and other banking details have also been compromised. According to the message posted to PasteBin along with a sample of the stolen data, social security numbers, dates of birth, and some internal emails from ClixSense may also have been compromised. Ars Technica reported this morning that about 2.2 million people have had their data posted to PasteBin over the weekend, reportedly just a taste of the 6.6 million user accounts that have been stolen. The hackers responsible stated in their PasteBin post that they intend to sell the user information they gathered, without disclosing a specific price. PasteBin has since removed the posts and the sample of the compromised user account information.

5 of 16 comments (clear)

  1. Makes Sense... by npslider · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you are willing to view ads and take surveys... do you EXPECT your info to be protected?

    1. Re:Makes Sense... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If you are willing to ...do you EXPECT your info to be protected?

      Well...yeah...I do actually. For all values of . The fact that the US has precisely zero protections on this is an epic regulatory failure.
      All industry holds me to a standard of fiscal responsibility, dictated by my credit score. These crack whores probably just demolished a whole bunch of random peoples' credibility with no recourse. The only person that suffers in these breaches is "me". The fuckoffs that build shitty systems, harvest, process and harvest some more of my personal data...even when I have NO business relationship with them WHATSOEVER...well, they're just fucking me over and I don't even know them.

      We've built a trust system in which you have no option but to trust. If you click "cancel" then you don't get to participate in life, goodbye.
      We've got Wells Fargo committing mass fraud now and they're proving daily that they just aren't trustworthy. How do we counter that?

      We have a system based on blind hope and it seems we're morally bankrupt.

  2. Re:More goverment incompetence. by blackpaw · · Score: 2

    Where's the "-1 Idiotic" mod when you need it?

  3. Re: Stupid business model + stupid practices = ___ by TroII · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You might be surprised who falls for scams like "Now hiring data entry workers, work from home with no credit or background check! Get started today, click here to submit your application and $5 processing fee." It's not rich people who get suckered $5 at a time by those offers, it's desperate people, and this list will contain a lot of desperate people.

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    "If there was a gay Afro-Puertorican Linux distribution, I'd give it a try" ~lucm
  4. Re:More goverment incompetence. by pokemon219 · · Score: 2

    @Anonymous Coward: "Once again we see how government IT is 100% complete garbage. If it weren't for the fact that my tax dollars were STOLEN from me to pay some fucking incomptent union boobs with cadillac health care plans, I'd be amused, but obviously I aint. When we will learn that government is evil and that everything it touches turns to shit?"

    Is that you Bill O' Reilly .. unions FAP .. health care FAP FAP .. liberals FAP FAP FAP ... UUUGH!